An Object
An Object - meaning Summary
Code Replaces the Core
Pound’s short lyric critiques social formality that substitutes for genuine feeling. An object embodies a set of external codes without inner substance, creating relations of mere acquaintance where deeper affections might belong. The speaker notes a resigned stasis: the subject is left to undisturbed, reflective isolation rather than engaged intimacy. The poem compresses a moral observation about emotional emptiness under social convention.
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