Ezra Pound's Poetry
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Topic: Ezra Pound's Poetry
Posted By: Tubes
Subject: Ezra Pound's Poetry
Date Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:00
Just curious about the prog community's perception of Ezra Pound and his poetry. All commentary welcome. 
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: June 16 2013 at 07:22
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Interesting. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 16 2013 at 09:29
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I like him k Insightful Observer . . . k
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 16 2013 at 17:09
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Makes pudding in the ears of flowers. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Tubes
Date Posted: June 17 2013 at 01:40
| Alright now - if you're going to call him an 'Inept Butcher of Language' - PLEASE at least SUPPORT your ASSERTION. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 17 2013 at 09:36
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Went with other due to his questionable ideology at times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_pound" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_pound "Outraged by the loss of life during the First World War, he lost faith in England, blaming the war on usury and international capitalism. He moved to Italy in 1924, where throughout the 1930s and 1940s, to his friends' dismay, he embraced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" rel="nofollow - - Adolf Hitler and wrote for publications owned by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley" rel="nofollow - - Second World War to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, as a result of which he was arrested for treason by American forces in Italy in 1945. He spent months in detention in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including 25 days in a six-by-six-foot outdoor steel cage that he said triggered a mental breakdown, "when the raft broke and the waters went over me." Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elizabeths_Hospital" rel="nofollow - - Allen Ginsberg in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 17 2013 at 09:42
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Never heard of him. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: June 17 2013 at 14:13
| Closest I've come to reading his poetry is reading Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley, in which one of Pound's characters (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) is the main character. Pretty interesting read, even if much is not historical fact. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 06:52
As with most so-called artistic 'iconoclasts', you've missed nothing ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 07:01
The name sounds familiar though. But I probably thought it was a fictional character. Certainly never knew it was a real person.  Weird. I consider myself fairly clever (Not by comparison to some of the humbling presences on PA though) but this guy just past me by. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 07:21
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Second-rate rhymer. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 07:29
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*passed me by ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 07:33
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I never knew of Ezra Pound Could be dog,could be hound. For all I knew he could be wound Around a stick that's used to pick, A lock that's found in a galleon ship. That sailed the seas by means of whip, And sank below without trace or sound, Of the legendary Mr Pound. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 11:24
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he's the poetry equivalent of Gilbert & George -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 10 2013 at 11:27
Deeeeep, man 
Sorry, did I say deep? Silly me -  - I meant total b***ocks!-------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 12:06
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Hi,
I have to re-read this stuff. Haven't read it in years, and don't remember it very well.
Ezra was one of my father's well known American authors that he wrote many a critical essay on for his books. That whole 50's era in American Literature was well represented in my father's work and was a serious part of his "Comparative Literature" studies and courses at the UC systems that he created in the 70's ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 22:11
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A middling poet grown monstrous from controversy, a mover of modernism, and a reductionist along Japanese and ancient Greek lines. But for all that, he had a keen awareness of what was great in others, hence his championing the writings of W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ernest Hemingway. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |