O fan of white silk,
clear as frost on the grass-blade,
You also are laid aside.
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Another great piece, tied in with the cultural reference of the Orient. (This is one of Pound's "interpretations" from a select group of Chinese works.) With a piece this short, every word/image must account for something, hence the play on the white tone (white silk, and frost); the delicate organics (silk, grass-blade); life form (the woman or person being laid aside, silk as a product of life form and grass as in the cycle of the earth/ground). I like the use of "O" to begin the thought, since, to me, it makes it a tone of pondering. "The" would make it a little cold, distant. The space given between the second and third line also work; it prepares the mind to develop a mental picture, and then adds the additional image of the woman who has been cut off from favor. Masterful.
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