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Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic...
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31 de mai. de 2023 · I slept in Circe's ingle. Going down the long ladder unguarded, I fell against the buttress, Shattered the nape-nerve, the soul sought Avernus. But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied, Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed: A man of no fortune, and with a name to come.
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In this section of The Odyssey, Pound translates Odysseus’ journey into the realm of the dead. He speaks briefly on Circe’s island, what the trip along the sea is like, and then about the edges of the earth. There, he seeks out information about what’s going to happen in the next part of his journey. In the underworld, Odysseus runs into one of his...
‘Canto I’ by Ezra Pound is a long three-stanza poem that is translated from the Ancient Greek. Pound, in order to maintain as much of the original’s structure as possible, looked to Old English meter (known today as an accentual meter) in order to structure the lines. This means that he focuses on the stressed syllables entirely. The unstressed syl...
Pound makes use of several literary devices in his translation of this part of Homer’s The Odyssey. These include but are not limited to, examples of alliteration, enjambment, and imagery. The latter is one of the literary devices for which Pound is remembered today. As an imagist, the imagery was always of the utmost importance to him. There are s...
Stanza Two
The second stanza is far shorter than the first. In it, Odysseus conveys what happened to his friend. He got drunk one night and fell and broke his neck while climbing down a ladder. He broke his skull and his spine, and his soul “sought Avernus” or entry into the underworld. Elpenor asks his friend to sail back to Circe’s island and take care of his body properly. Therefore he won’t have to stay in limbo for the rest of eternity.
Readers who enjoyed the first canto of The Cantos should also look into some of Pound’s other best-known poems. These include ‘In a Station at the Metro’,‘The River Merchant’s Wife’, and ‘The Garden’. Some other related poems include ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer’ by John Keats and ‘Odysseus to Telemachus’ by Joseph Brodsky. The former was...
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15 de nov. de 2017 · Ezra Pound – Canto I. E pois com a nau no mar, Assestamos a quilha contra as vagas. E frente ao mar divino içamos vela. No mastro sobre aquela nave escura, Levamos as ovelhas a bordo e. Nossos corpos também no pranto aflito, E ventos vindos pela popa nos. Impeliam adiante, velas cheias,
Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven. Swartest night stretched over wretched men there. The ocean flowing backward, came we then to the place. Aforesaid by Circe. Here did they rites, Perimedes and Eurylochus, And drawing sword from my hip. I dug the ell-square pitkin;
9 de mar. de 2017 · A summary of Pound’s poem Ezra Pound’s colossal work of modernist poetry, The Cantos, runs to nearly 800 pages and took him over half his life to write – and even then, he never finished it. Pound himself said that the structure of The Cantos could be analysed as follows: ‘Live man goes down into…
Ele é também o maior poeta “participante” dentro deste mesmo mundo “cristão e ocidental” — o maior poeta anticapitalista. E, nisso, durante diversas partes dos Cantos, sabe contrapor a naturalidade do comportamento, do estar pagão, à hipocrisia da civilização cristã.
