Read the poem "Sea Rose," by H. D. Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem? - you are caught in the drift. Stunted, with small leaf, you are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind. Can the spice-rose drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf? Which modernist technique does the poem utilize?

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Peanut

23 January, 15:15

Read the poem "Sea Rose," by H. D. Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem? - you are caught in the drift. Stunted, with small leaf, you are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind. Can the spice-rose drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf? Which modernist technique does the poem utilize?

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Adrien Boyle · Answer 1

There are many modernist techniques, most prominent being imagism, used here to affect your senses while you're imagining what is being described. This was pretty common among poets of the modernist era, especially those like Ezra Pound.