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Week 9 Edwin Arlington Robinson 埃德温·阿林顿·罗宾逊 (1869-1935) Imigist In a Station of the Metro, Pound attempts to produce the emotion he felt when he walked down into a Paris subway station and suddenly saw a number of faces in the dim light. To capture the emotion, Pound uses the image of petals on a wet, black bough. The image is not decoration:It is central to the poem’s meaning. In fact, it’s the poem’s meaning. descendant of Anne Bradstreet. worked in obscurity until granted a job in the New York custom house by President Theodore Roosevelt, an admirer of his poetry best known for writing short poems that tell a story An important poet in the transition from American traditional poetry to Modern poetry. Realistic poet Robinson’s style Robinsons poetry was stylistically simple and neat, and it fits the common preconception that everyone seems to think of when they hear the word poetry. It rhymes, with basic rhyme schemes, has simple feet and meter, and has a consciously lyrical, musical construction. It is divided into segments, usually of quatrains or some other poetic convention. In terms of form, Robinson owes much more to his English poetical pioneers such Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, and John Milton than to those who were his American poetic contemporaries, writers such as Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens, who were introducing new styles rooted in free verse.  themes Robinsons writing was forever shaped by the conflicts and problems of his life and the lives of those around him. most of these characters: during his formative years growing up in Gardiner. most of them residing in fictional New England areas in personal failure, frustrated desires, and simple bad luck. The best examples of these burned out characters are the subjects of? Robinsons two most often reprinted poems Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy. This very real-life, non-romantic take at writing, especially in the realm of poetry, was an anomaly in the time of Whitmans, and Emersons. These write