Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound is a blank verse. I believe that it is a poem that illustrates the emptiness and drabness of the life of a cultured woman that seems to be surrounded by all beautiful objects. In the first couple of lines, he states: "Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, / London has swept about you this score years / And bright ships left you this or that in fee." He is …showed first 75 words of 440 total…

…showed last 75 words of 440 total…has beauty. Her beauty is within, and no one is able to see it. "No! there is nothing! In the whole and all / Nothing that's quite your own / Yet this is you." He finally came to realize that as much as you want her to truly be a goddess and be radiant with virtue, she is only a woman lacking identity and fulfillment. It appears that her environment structures her. <Tab/>