Canto III
This is when it gets difficult, because Pound becomes personal in the first part. Personal means tied to the popular culture of the day: as an older man I always consider that gondolas cost too much....
View ArticleA Sestina for this time.
Why is Pound using a traditional form of poetry: and why for this time? We have had a long peace, and as at the time of writing there is an urge to war. The cost of warre is forgotten, and its tendancy...
View ArticleThis is a farewell, to modernity.
Most people date this as 1919, and then concentrate on the longer Poems Pound Wrote. Pound was a genius, and like such, he knew his...
View ArticleApropos of hatred modernist poem.
A quick note to the craftsman, those who hate will use their whimpers to destroy, abrade, and remove anything graceful, beautiful and with colour. We...
View ArticleA modern Romance, now disavowed.
The Virginal was a musical instrument, but for most of the last two thousand years there was but one Virgin, and that was Mary. Pound...
View ArticleThe curse of the intellectual (poem)
One of the troubles of reading a lot, writing a lot and spending most of your time in your brain is that it does not...
View ArticleDope poem.
There is a referendum about Cannabis going on as part of the election. A lot of the great and good support it, along with the...
View ArticleTwo poems: two generations.
I don’t read Whitman. He sucks, but Pound is a pimp. Pound is the better poet, while Whitman, like many of his generation, spends too...
View ArticlePound need not worry. The woke do not do have a classical education..
The classics do not have a wide circulation. This is not classical poetry. It is modern. The modernist movements — of which imagism was one...
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