Who coined the slogan 'Make it New'?

• A. Ezra Pound
• B. T.S. Eliot
• C. James Joyce
• D. Gertrude Stein

Answer: (A)

The idea being tested is the attribution of a famous modernist push for reinvention: making poetry new through clarity, precision, and fresh language. This slogan is associated with Ezra Pound, a leading figure in Imagism who urged poets to strip away cumbersome diction and old conventions in favor of concise, exact imagery. He promoted a break from nineteenth‑century styles and encouraged experimentation that would renew poetic language and form. While Pound wasn’t alone in shaping modernism—his contemporaries also explored new ways of writing—the specific motto “Make it new” is linked to him, capturing his call for radical freshness in verse. The other modernists you hear about worked in related ways, but the phrase itself is Pound’s signature exhortation.