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85. Under the influence of Ezra Pound © 22 June 2018 |
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Let’s face it: most people don’t have a clue what Ezra Pound is talking about. Quotiescumque manducamus panem hunc… That doesn’t mean to say he’s not a great poet; many who like Pound (who loved Hitler) understand Pound’s poems, aren’t dumb, and find his poems accessible. I don’t. Itis apis potanda bigone. He’s such an intellectual. All those different languages and so many references to mythologies and stuff! Cryptus rushes onward, ‘tis zucchinis for Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort. But look! Look! Listen! He had a big influence on others, Eliot for example; Eliot wrote about cats. If I ended up in the same place I started I’d know there was a wrong turn somewhere. Quotiescumque manducamus panem hunc makes even a cat look academic. Meow. Methinks the emperor has no clothes. Itis apis potanda bigone. …um …er …oh … Itis apis potanda bigone. |