tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3504380163589043121..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Ezra Pound: And before hell mouth (from Canto XVI) Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76282346347059949732012-11-06T16:34:00.984-08:002012-11-06T16:34:00.984-08:00‘The road like a slow screw’s thread, the angle al...‘The road like a slow screw’s thread, the angle almost imperceptible, so that the circuit seemed hardly to rise;’<br /><br />The gradualism of this struck me. The interminable fleeing, the constant going round and round, the effort to rise above the evil that’s always there, just over one’s shoulder. There's a nightmare quality to this.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69389656215516906412012-11-06T13:17:37.542-08:002012-11-06T13:17:37.542-08:00It seems almost a pile-up of monstrous images towa...It seems almost a pile-up of monstrous images toward the close of the passage: fish heaped in a bin; embryos, in flux; the upward arm twice (at least; the eels. <br /><br />The face covered over is almost a relief.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66569025319645779942012-11-06T11:21:07.129-08:002012-11-06T11:21:07.129-08:00Excellent. Both Pound and pictures capture the mom...Excellent. Both Pound and pictures capture the moment, as do all the comments here today. They bring us right to the horrific point: we’re peering into the gaping maw of a neo-feudal system of corporate overlords, old money plutocrats, new-monied Cagliostros of the financial and rentier classes, and their mercenary armies and state security forces; with just a pinch of evangelical fervor to lend an air of legitimacy. This is the world of grifter capitalism and other actionable crimes. It’s all stuck together with money; therefore it's highly unstable and comes apart easily.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77012368010571990402012-11-06T10:37:50.042-08:002012-11-06T10:37:50.042-08:00Dear T: The Pound poem has amazing forward thrust,...Dear T: The Pound poem has amazing forward thrust, don't you think? And your learned explication is another poem.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15320287458462234232012-11-06T10:12:50.228-08:002012-11-06T10:12:50.228-08:00Sounds like you are right at the brink of hell mou...Sounds like you are right at the brink of hell mouth there, Nin. The images from Ohio are giving the term "media blitz" a whole new meaning, today.<br /><br /><a href="http://therightnewz.com/?p=13495" rel="nofollow">America Needs Romney Blimp Flies Over Obama Rally in Columbus</a><br /><br />WB's list puts one in mind of the epic dimensions of this battle. As if the Disneyoid cartoon proportions of the horror were ever going to be alowed to escape what is left of our minds.<br /><br />There may be a whole fleet of these big brainbombers out there. Not forgetting those lost on the heroic airfields of the great struggle.<br /><br />The heart would go out (for example) to the survivors of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48076930@N02/8114199733/" rel="nofollow">MittBlimp that crashed in Florida on 22 October</a>... But how can the heart go out to a robopilot?<br /><br />It's so very confusing.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42298897841444053062012-11-06T10:06:18.237-08:002012-11-06T10:06:18.237-08:00With those whirling arms, what first came to my mi...With those whirling arms, what first came to my mind was Blake's altercation with a soldier in Felpham, and all that true and seditious spiel. <br /><br />"The face gone, generation".<br /><br />Ypres. Buchenwald. Hiroshima. Bhopal. Fukushima Daiichi. Just a few names from a long, long list. Many generations. Not so many to come, perhaps. A real full stop is coming.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68737432455534630252012-11-06T09:38:33.663-08:002012-11-06T09:38:33.663-08:00Such vivid images of hell in both the photos and P...Such vivid images of hell in both the photos and Pound. And yes, the profiteers are the conductors. It is so sad. Poisonous. If we could only get them out of the elections--<br /><br />And the phone is still ringing here with automated Mitt and Ann . . . Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30035048638565043632012-11-06T09:27:15.775-08:002012-11-06T09:27:15.775-08:00William,
Pound seems to have been thinking of Bla...William,<br /><br />Pound seems to have been thinking of Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy, especially his images of <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=but812.1.wc.06&java=no" rel="nofollow">Charon and the Condemned Souls</a> and <a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=but812.1.wc.19&java=no" rel="nofollow">The Angel Crossing the Styx</a>.<br /><br />The lake of bodies surely derives from anecdotal reports of scenes from the trenches of the 1914-1918 war.<br /><br />"...submerging/ the face gone, generation" would then refer to that lost generation of young men.<br /><br />The arm emerging from the swamp, clutching at marble, would probably be the arm of the sculptor Henri Gaudier, whose letters from the trenches had affected Pound deeply, and whose loss came to symbolize for him the entire evil of that war.<br /><br />Of course EP's highly intelligible conclusion was that the whole affair had been instigated by and conducted for the benefit of the profiteers.<br /><br />And here we stand, or cower, at the mouth of whatever hells can be brought down upon the earth for the further benefit and satisfaction of a later and far more dangerous "generation" of profiteers.<br /><br />(Though perhaps it's hard to imagine those high rolling billionaire brothers who are so busy buying off Ohio having been generated by anything, but we must keep in mind the history of that corporate lineage, all that excavation, all that plunder, all those chemical wastelands, one long Infernal Western Front when you come to think of it from the POV of anything living.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31355282241745907932012-11-06T08:51:52.284-08:002012-11-06T08:51:52.284-08:00How miraculous to see Ezra Pound on William Blake ...How miraculous to see Ezra Pound on William Blake like some transmutative Hades of the Dantean plain. And those photos are off the hook!WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com