L'art

L'art - meaning Summary

Visual Appetite and Shock

Pound’s two-line miniature presents a startling, sensual image that mixes beauty and toxicity. The speaker addresses a companion, inviting them to take pleasure in vivid visual sensations: smeared green arsenic and crushed strawberries on egg-white cloth. The juxtaposition of poisonous green with luscious fruit models modernist fascination with shock, condensed imagery, and art as visual feast, asking readers to savor aesthetic intensity even when it unsettles.