The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter | Style
This translation, “ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” is structured into 5 stanzas: the first of 6 lines, and the second, third, and fourth of 4 lines each. Each of the first four stanzas is image-centered, focusing an emotional point in the history of the relationship between the river-merchant’s wife and her husband. The final stanza of 10 lines and a dropped half-line begins with the presentation of T h e R i v e r - M e r c h a n t ’ s W i f e : A L e t t e r Topics for Further Study • In 1948, Ezra Pound won the Bollingen Prize for the best volume of poetry published...
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