Ezra Pound: Poet by A. David Moody

Author:A. David Moody
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780199215584
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

That might be the notary’s hand, or his own, and his reader’s. That ‘Thou’ is the all-inclusive singular which is addressing equally one’s own self and other selves, speaking to all individually and inwardly. Pound himself walked in the sun in Siena and saw ‘weed sprout over cornice’; and in his sense of the moment there is a timeless, impersonal, insight. It is a moment, a mood, which will be caught up into canto 47.

Canto 45 distils a very different mood from the action of the preceding Siena cantos. This is, on the face of it, an Old Testament preacher’s or prophet’s passionate denunciation of usury. The word occurs twenty times in the fifty lines, and is linked throughout to insistent negatives, as in

with usura

seeth no man Gonzaga his heirs and his concubines

no picture is made to endure nor to live with

but is made to sell and sell quickly

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