Ezra Pound

Gentildonna

Gentildonna - meaning Summary

A Fleeting Elegiac Presence

The poem presents a brief, elegiac image of a woman who passes without disturbing the world yet persists as a subtle presence in nature. She moves among trees and clings in the air she has severed, her motion fanning the grass she walked on. The closing image—grey olive leaves beneath a rain-cold sky—links her to a cool, muted landscape, suggesting persistence through transformation rather than physical trace.

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She passed and left no quiver in the veins, who now Moving among the trees, and clinging in the air she severed, Fanning the grass she walked on then, endures: Grey olive leaves beneath a rain-cold sky.

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