Did poetry peak with Ezra Pound?
No, it peaked with Milton
>>25198149lol no, he’s still great. But I wouldn’t even say he was as good as prose stylists like Joyce.
>>25198164I often see people make comments like this, praising but ultimately depreciating Pound in comparison with other modernists. It seems like the easy way out for people who don't want to take the big leap into studying prosody and reading the entire Cantos. I think if anyone does seriously acquaint themselves with his technique and ideas it will be inarguable that he is among the finest poets in the language.
>>25198149>Undine
>>25198203Sorry, I was being somewhat facetious. And I haven’t actually read the entire Cantos so I’ll admit you’re correct there too. Poetry ultimately is a more challenging form of literature than prose so if nothing else, I find him more admirable and possibly more talented than the other modernists. Speaking of them, how would you rank him amongst them?
>>25198204Anime girls are so fucking cute I just want to hug them and then fuck their brains out and yet, I’ve not seen a single anime in my entire life.
>>25198149Can somebody tell me the purpose of stuff like this? Or even what its supposed to mean?
>>25198155Dubs don’t lie.
eliot >
>>25198204>>Undinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZBaB5G56I
>>25198212>Speaking of them, how would you rank him amongst them?The big figures of Anglo modernism, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, etc. are all so exceptional it feels futile to rank them, but I do believe that Joyce and Pound possess nervous systems of greater sensitivity, more expansive in the subject matter they respond to, with a corresponding superiority of technique. I'm not sure if that constitutes a ranking.
