>The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.What makes this line so good?
>>24681777It's direct and concise.
i think maybe nice contrast between ant and centaur (contrast of scale & contrast between plain creature and mythic being) and then strange phrase "dragon world" with its gentle grandness and asiatic flair
>>24681777>checked>scales & carapace conflation>its thorax is elevated, whereas the serpent grovels >The scale of organization of Antkind bespeaks a kindred spirit, such that they may as well be Centaurs among other beasts.
>>24681777It's in iambic pentameter.
>>24681777Bugs are cool
>>24681777It reveals how pea-brained he was
He assumes the default ant is male (don't tell me a poet like him would be scared of the word 'its'). Also assumes that an intelligent ant capable of abstract thought and self-awareness would produce and entertain mental models akin to a human's (mythology, similes, fantastical thinking, etc).
ant 6 limbs. centaur 6 limbs. ant noble monster like dragon
>>24681874'in' isn't stressed, or at very least it's dipodic.
>>24681777Nothing. If some dipshit on 4chan came up with that line, he'd be ignored or ridiculed, but because it's associated with an acclaimed writer, you delude yourself into thinking it has worth.
>>24681896It does not assume anything about ants being capable of abstract thought. It's about the ant's oddity being relative.
>>24681943>'in' isn't stressedIt's still iambic pentameter. Look at these famous lines, for example.>The proper study of mankind is man.'of' isn't stressed>Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit'and' isn't stressed>Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'to' isn't stressed>I met a traveller from an antique land'from' isn't stressedOr will you say these lines aren't iambic pentameter?
>>24682127Most of the examples you posted are stressed. Whether you want to emphasise that stress is a different matter, but in the Op example, knowing Pound's sensibilities, it is not stressed.
>>24681777You are an ant living in a fantasy world.>he is literally me!
>>24682438>Most of the examples you posted are stressedNo they aren't
>>24682060Youve actually been filtergered btw.OP, it’s a xommentsry on pride. Ant’s considers itself a dragon in its mythical world. Tear down thy vanity, rathe to destroy, niggard in charity: Pull down thy vanity,I say, pull down. Youre a magpie btw neverforget
>>24684070...are you drunk?
>>24681777The use of a metaphor instead of a simile for the ant being a centaur creates a very pathetic/empathic image (as >>24681802said) in which we assume the role of the ant. Seeing that the world is very large and great, we exalt ourselves (vanity) to its level by believing our nature to be divine/mythological (centaur), and thus the ant comes to believe that he lives in a dragon world. But if we "pull down our vanity" and listen to nature, we can learn our true place in it ("learn of the green world what can by thy place").
>>24684070wrong
>>24684350This quote is from Emerson not Dosto, you fucking retard.
>>24681777Succession of three images in short space, and the plays of vowel and consonant sounds
>>24684350I'm pretty sure the ant, centaur and dragon are all meant to be ideal images of nature. As in, man should appreciate the truth and grandeur of nature in spite of his anthropocentric vanity.
>>24683421The Shakespeare and Shelley certainly are. Compare any trained verse reader's recital of those poems with Pound's recital of the Op line. The stress is audible in the prior, even if you don't emphasise it much, with 'to' having precedence to 'a', and 'from' having precedence to 'an', but in the latter Pound jumps right over 'in' and 'his' as equally unstressed.
>>24684780>any trained verse readerLiterally, what the fuck are you talking about? You're just making shit up now.
>>24684795>I’m going to read my poems with great emphasis upon their rhythm, and that may seem strange if you are not used to it. I remember the great English poet William Morris coming in a rage out of some lecture hall, where somebody had recited a passage out of his Sigurd the Volsung. ‘It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble,’ said Morris, ‘to get that thing into verse!’ It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FT4_UUa4I
>>24684841I don't see the word "trained" any where, jackass.
>>24685449If you are not speaking like prose then you were by definition trained not to.
>>24681896stfu, tranny.
>>24685478>speaking like proseWhat the fuck does this even mean? Stop spitting out bullshit.>you were by definition trainedWhere in the definition does it say anything about prose?
>>24681896Why are you so cringe with your fedora ass truisms?
