A Modest Poetry Challenge: An Ezra Pound Poem

Firstly thanks to Kate for organising this month-long Modest Poetry Challenge. It may not be National Poetry Month in the UK, but it is in this house, and my love of poetry has been reawakened. Although I have still occasionally read poetry over the past few years, I don't think I've thought as much about it since I was at school and it has been very enjoyable.
As I mentioned I've been using OpenLearn to do a short course on poetry and this by Ezra Pound is one of the poems that is used as an example on the course where it is not discussed in any great detail other than to show the power a short poem can have. For me it is quite a perfect and beautiful poem. (It also reminded me how much I used to love Ezra Pound's writing, and I was saddened to see the other day that, according to Sheffield's main bookstore, his poetry is no longer worth giving shelf-space to.)

Fan-Piece, for her imperial lord

O fan of white silk,

clear as frost on the grass-blade,

You also are laid aside.

Small but beautiful, what struck me most about this poem is that its power hinges on one word, the 'also' in the last line. If you remove that word you have just a vignette, albeit with an image in the second line that is clear and beautiful; it is a picture of a moment, but nothing more.
Put back the word 'also' and you have a poem that resonates with the quiet sadness and regret of love spurned, the pain of no longer being in favour but 'laid aside' (by, as the title suggests, her imperial lord) for someone else. The image of the second line, the cold of the frost that the fan is compared to, increases this emotion; the cold frost that the fan is compared to can be related to the cold feeling of loss and abandonment of the woman.
I was really struck by the beauty of this little poem, only three lines but very moving and powerful.