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The Pool - Are you alive? The Pool - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

‘The Pool’ is one of the most famous and widely discussed Imagist poems, and in many ways it conforms to the central ‘tenets’ of that movement as set out by Ezra Pound in his unofficial manifesto, ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’.

2011年5月13日 · Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.

"The Pool" is a short, imagistic poem that describes a tranquil pool in a garden. The speaker of the poem observes the pool and reflects on its stillness and beauty, using vivid sensory imagery to convey its atmosphere.

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My embarrassment at his nakedness, at the pool’s edge, and my wife, with his, standing, watching— this was a freedom not given me who am more naked, less contained by my own white flesh and the ability to take quietly what comes …