Yet beyond just this farmer’s situation, Pound reveals how the whole natural world has been mistreated during the war, that so much which requires care has been neglected, that what the young men were off fighting for was dying in their absence. Imprisoned for some weeks in a wire cage open to the elements, Pound suffered a nervous collapse from the physical and emotional strain. Whom did he kill? How many good people will steal bread to stay alive then years later denounce a thief? “CONversation” Language can be manipulated. I sing and I hurt and I want to be understood. While “We” have the luxury to gossip about “every boy and girl in the valley”, the farmer, alone, must sustain not only himself, but all of us who depend on him. “The new Bechstein is electric” – all his birds sit on the electric wires making a new sort of electric music – the sound in the wires visualized by nature – hidden, unseen beauty to be discovered. “Brother Wasp is building a very neat house” Life toils endlessly. Books about From Canto LXXVIII (Pisan Cantos), Books about From Canto LXXVII (Pisan Cantos), Books about Ezra Pound and The Pisan Cantos, Books about From Canto LXXX (Pisan Cantos). Imprisoned for some weeks in a wire cage open to the elements, Pound suffered a nervous collapse from the physical and emotional strain. In empathy? He equates the Russian NEP with “the immolation of men to machinery” – excellent line and observation to equate man, machine, fire, life, death, rebirth all in one. In the beginning was the word. in the smell of hay under the olive-trees, Ezra Pound Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Poetry following war, art following destruction. “there are those who did not want / it to come to an end” as in the war. Violent image, drums of war, not drums of peace. The cycle goes on and on. And in this sense Pound and the farmer are deeply connected at the center beating heart of this Canto. “The word is made perfect” – he uses Chinese symbols, multiple languages, uncommon grammar – all in trying to make the word(s) perfect. Lithe sinews of water, gripping her, cross-hold. Impersonal, lonely. “as witness the bombardment at Frascati after the armistice / had been signed” As fast as news / rumor travels, it isn’t faster than our ability to kill each other when we disagree. Could be church, gospel, mass, homily? “they beat drums for three days till all the drumheads were busted” Celebration? The farmer can now either choose to accept this offering or turn his back because it appears too meager.
We give birth to ourselves. Perhaps this is Pound’s “Yes” (from Joyce). He is secluded from humanity, or maybe the other way around? Love how he equates rumor/ news to what’s heard in a shit house. I am words. Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America on Radio Rome. Language, the old meanings of words “root” – the plant has roots hidden in the earth and words have meaning we aren’t always aware of, but words have meaning. And So-shu churned in the sea, So-shu also. “Tempus tacendi, tempus loquendo” a time to speak, a time for silence. “woe to them that conquer with armies / and whose only right is their power.” Yet the farmer also starves. The man’s cow has been poorly treated, it can provide little sustenance, and may even be near death which could devastate a poor farmer who relies on his livestock not just to eat but also to produce an income.
Perhaps the farmer senses the beast’s exposed ribs as evidence of the distance he and God have grown apart and he is reminded of how much killing he was involved with during the war. Download eBook pdf/epub/tuebl/mobi Format & Read Online Full Books. The Pisan Cantos, 76: 190-194 . Pound creates a humble scene of this blind farmer caressing his cow between the gentle sloping green-grassy hills below the snowy mountain peaks as if the entire weight of this single act of human kindness was enough to impress a sacred spot “in the valley” that could shelter and nurture all those with enough faith who chose to live there. The patient believes he has suffered great psychological trauma and is thus using this passage to express his pain through the image of a small, beautiful flower, which may represent himself, being tangled in a field of grass, which may be significant as he has been detained in cramped, exposed conditions. He’s like rules. War can kill us, but it’s our language which really changes things – governments, law, literature, love letters. “the young horse whinnies against the sound of the bumm band;” an image of nature reacting terrified against the coming war, or the fear of a young man who is being called up to war, nature’s natural music vs man’s mechanical music. Plans? Clement = apocrypha. MacLeish disputes Saturday Review of Literature's condemnation of the awarding of the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound. Barn destroyed? Lines 247-257 are fascinating, but I can’t make sense of the image. We have within us our own enemies who will kill us, we raise them and they might either help us in old age or kill us in another war. Ezra Pound, Variorum Edition of 'Three Cantos'; A Prototype, ed. Authority? And the blue-gray glass of the wave tents them. Don’t bullshit me!” (51), but also of his more obscure observations of birds sitting on electrical wires which he interprets and transcribes as musical notation, “with 8 birds on a wire / or rather on 3 wires” (63). “and still there if you climb over the attic rafter; to look at the fields; are they tilled?” Again, the farmer comes home to what? “so kissed the earth after sleeping on concrete.” & “in limbo no victories, there, are no victories -” We can change our physical situation but we’re still trapped in the same mind. As the farmer touches his starving cow he is reminded of the endless and fruitless toil of his lonely existence.
“And now the ants seem to stagger / as the dawn sun has trapped their shadows, / this breath wholly covers the mountains / it shines and divides / it nourishes by its rectitude / does no injury / overstanding the earth it fills the nine fields / to heaven” Providence? And now “We” reap what “We” have sown: a God who seems to have turned his back on all of humanity as he did with Cain, a starving cow, and a blind farmer who laments his fate because whom he placed his faith in turned out to be a false God, like the golden calf in the desert. Leviticus 19: Here’s all the rules, follow them because I am the Lord – until I come again and then you wan’t have to. Fields full of rockets? “the problem after any revolution is what to do with / your gunmen”. Annotated canto 52 now online - Tuesday, 27 October 2020 01:00 Comprehensive bibliographies for the whole Cantos - Sunday, 26 October 2014 23:19 Illustrated Companion from Ur-I to 40 now available - Monday, 26 October 2020 01:01 Leopards sniffing the grape shoots by scupper-hole. and to eastward, and to the Naxos passage. Do we listen to Pound’s and the farmer’s strange “dialect” and put down our swords to be beaten into ploughshares so that the life of the farm can increase? using the long moon for a churn-stick ... splashing in rock-hollows and sand-hollows. Every civilization is built on war. “Odysseus / the name of my family” is the name of all our family, at least in the west. Also, birds will shit on anyone, king or not.
In life? “and her hair gone white from the loss of him / and she not yet thirty” So much grief. He’s so concerned with money and economics. “It is true that the interest is now legally lower” As in the war? Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos, ed Richard Sieburth (New York, 2003). The Pisan Cantos Ezra Pound And The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. “The old trees near the Rue Jacob / were propped up to keep them from falling” reminds me of the poplars lining the Apian Way, like old soldiers who can’t stand anymore and need help from the younger generations. He died, following a decade of silence, in 1972. Moral Courage, Formal Differences in “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, Iliad: The Psychological Complexity of the Warrior, Le Morte Darthur: The Masculine & Feminine State Dynamic, M. Butterfly: Marxism: The State’s Stage Directions, M. Butterfly: Psychoanalysis: Audience as Superego, Colonialism / Postcolonialism: McIntosh's Argument Against Kindness to end Racism, Cultural Analysis of Anheuser-Busch's “Born the Hard Way”, Deconstruction / Postmodernism: Derrida’s ‘différance’, Deconstruction / Postmodernism: Simulation of the Real, Feminism: The Ascendance of Masculinities, M. Butterfly (opera): Marxism: Power Relationship Nodes and Connections, M. Butterfly (opera): Postcolonial: Colonial Expansion vs. “Sochy-lism is a-comin’ ” We still hear this talk today, people who talk about something they don’t quite understand – one way or another. Therefore, it is my professional opinion that Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is not insane, he is just an incredibly talented poet. Seal sports in the spray-whited circles of cliff-wash. This is and isn’t modern poetry. If I may be as bold as to sound poetic, it is as if the patient were tuned into the radio broadcast of all human civilization across all time and space and wants to make sense of it all not only for himself, but for everyone alive. We are not truths. ‘“ both eyes, (the loss of) and to find someone, talked of every boy and girl in the valley, he was sad because he had been able to feel. Yes, he is blind, and he may try to tell them that pursuing senseless violence against each other only leads to misery, but he might as well be speaking a dead language to deaf ears. These Cantos are an outpouring of Pound’s mind, but do we still know him any better? He goes on about the Jews then leads into economics. Pound is requiring each of us to complete the image, to freely choose which direction we will walk. I am basing my conclusion of the patient’s current mental state on several complicated factors that I ask you to consider. And where was gunwale, there now was vine-trunk. God? “created the names” – the names, the forms perhaps, existed before? 1 Thessalonians 4:11: “and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,”. Corruption? This blind farmer, who carries with him the memory of war, speaks with the unique “dialect” of wartime experience that the boys and girls of the valley are ignorant of. But who will visit it? Far from turning inward and morose, the patient is keenly aware of every sensation and stimulation around him, but like a SCR-300 used by our Signal Corps which is somehow tuned to every open channel, the patient’s mind seems to be like a new Signal Corps Private who is frantically trying to transpose everything coming in over that SCR-300 receiver faithfully but due to the sheer volume of information is experiencing enormous stress in trying to keep up. “It is said that Homer was a medic / who followed the greek armies to Troas” I never heard this before – interesting idea. Circus?
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