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Abstraction in Ezra Pound’s Poetry: A Vorticist Revolt

Pure abstract painting, dance, sculpture or music is easily accessible to a general audience, but pure abstract poetry is not. Most anthologies of poetry do not include any abstract poem and most critics have not argued over any possibility or existence of abstract poetry. One of the prominent reasons that there are few, if any, abstract poems or no argument on them lies in the representational character of their medium, language. Unlike an abstract painting which eliminates all extraneous subject-matter and expresses with only shapes, spaces, and colors, poetry has to depend on language which is believed to represent reality to some extent. Despite the mimetic nature of the poetic medium, many modernist poets have tried to make modern poetry abstract. This paper investigates whether Ezra Pound’s poetry can be read as an abstract artwork and suggests that Vorticism, one of the most influential art movements in England in the early twentieth century shows the ways in which he made his poetry abstract.