Women Before a Shop

Women Before a Shop - meaning Summary

Attracted to False Sparkle

Pound observes women drawn to cheap imitation jewelry, presenting a terse social sketch of appetite for bright, artificial ornament. The poem contrasts glittering falseness with natural values, using compact, disdainful language to suggest taste shaped by surface attraction rather than authenticity. In two lines he compresses satire about consumer display and the contagion of fashionable imitation, implying a broader comment on social and aesthetic mimicry.