If you have actually managed to find a comprehensible Pound poem...
Well, to be fair, "In a Station of the Metro" is certainly comprehensible, if nothing else. *snerk*
Here's a link to "A Girl." Like "Station," it benefits from being short. (Pound gets worse the longer he's allowed to go on, IMO.) I almost used it in the Marcus-pining-for-Susan fic I wrote last summer, but wound up quoting/referencing "My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose" instead.
I mostly view Pound as the universe's way of making sure that Eliot would happen and get noticed.
Hee. I like what I've read of Eliot, which is basically "Prufrock" and "Wasteland," but I'm not as in love with it as I am with some other poets of the era. However, I agree with you on their relationship. Basically, Eliot did the mindbendy long stuff better, and HD did the imagism better, so why do we have Pound, again?
And you did have to point out that Marcus would totally be the type for both Donne and Yeats, didn't you? Particularly Donne, who is... such a prat, sometimes. But yes.
Oh, you know Marcus is all about the Renaissance, and DEFINITELY Donne. I'm sure he's got a fair few sonnets from Shakespeare and Spenser committed to memory as well. Hell, the man's probably even read all of The Faerie Queene. We didn't even manage that in my mostly-Spenser Renaissance seminar.
And while I think he probably appreciates Yeats, especially "The Second Coming" and maybe some of the early Celtic Twilight poems--perhaps also "Fascination of What's Difficult"--I'm not sure I see him being as drawn to most of the others, as many of them are Irish context-dependent. (Caveat: I mentioned that the fic would turn into Five Yeats Poems because that's what I'd do, not Marcus [same with Millay, and besides, I seem to have earmarked her for Susan, no, I have no idea either], and I like Yeats for his Irishness. My field, such as it was, in grad school was twentieth-century and contemporary Irish Lit, which, given my program and my own proclivities, basically meant I turned into a Modernist.)
I am disgracefully ill-educated about Auden. I really only know "Beaux Arts" and his Yeats elegy. I'll check those out forthwith!
"Atonement" turning our assessment of Delenn completely around is one of the best moves this series ever made. &hearts
...I'm just going to pretend that I'd noticed that all along, shall I? o_O I knew something was niggling at me about those damned things...
Hee! I don't notice much about costumes, but for some reason, that stuck out at me. Maybe 'cause the fabrics aren't crazy like they are for the alien races.
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Date: 2010-08-12 07:06 am (UTC)Well, to be fair, "In a Station of the Metro" is certainly comprehensible, if nothing else. *snerk*
Here's a link to "A Girl." Like "Station," it benefits from being short. (Pound gets worse the longer he's allowed to go on, IMO.) I almost used it in the Marcus-pining-for-Susan fic I wrote last summer, but wound up quoting/referencing "My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose" instead.
I mostly view Pound as the universe's way of making sure that Eliot would happen and get noticed.
Hee. I like what I've read of Eliot, which is basically "Prufrock" and "Wasteland," but I'm not as in love with it as I am with some other poets of the era. However, I agree with you on their relationship. Basically, Eliot did the mindbendy long stuff better, and HD did the imagism better, so why do we have Pound, again?
And you did have to point out that Marcus would totally be the type for both Donne and Yeats, didn't you? Particularly Donne, who is... such a prat, sometimes. But yes.
Oh, you know Marcus is all about the Renaissance, and DEFINITELY Donne. I'm sure he's got a fair few sonnets from Shakespeare and Spenser committed to memory as well. Hell, the man's probably even read all of The Faerie Queene. We didn't even manage that in my mostly-Spenser Renaissance seminar.
And while I think he probably appreciates Yeats, especially "The Second Coming" and maybe some of the early Celtic Twilight poems--perhaps also "Fascination of What's Difficult"--I'm not sure I see him being as drawn to most of the others, as many of them are Irish context-dependent. (Caveat: I mentioned that the fic would turn into Five Yeats Poems because that's what I'd do, not Marcus [same with Millay, and besides, I seem to have earmarked her for Susan, no, I have no idea either], and I like Yeats for his Irishness. My field, such as it was, in grad school was twentieth-century and contemporary Irish Lit, which, given my program and my own proclivities, basically meant I turned into a Modernist.)
I am disgracefully ill-educated about Auden. I really only know "Beaux Arts" and his Yeats elegy. I'll check those out forthwith!
"Atonement" turning our assessment of Delenn completely around is one of the best moves this series ever made. &hearts
...I'm just going to pretend that I'd noticed that all along, shall I? o_O I knew something was niggling at me about those damned things...
Hee! I don't notice much about costumes, but for some reason, that stuck out at me. Maybe 'cause the fabrics aren't crazy like they are for the alien races.