Necrophilia? What necrophilia? Jeez, we miss so much here in the hinterlands
of Maine...

Kate

----- Original Message -----
From: "bob scheetz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce


> Richard Seddon writes:
> > With the two set as discussion points, e. e. cummings seems the more
> > mainline modern to me.  His poetry, even that of the country,  seems
> urban.
> > Frost seems throw-back pastoral; almost Georgian.  Much of
>
> richard,   ...probably yer right, ...but i've always used much of frost
for
> heidegger..."i cannot rub the strangeness from my eyes,"...the
necrophilia,
> nso on.
>
> bob
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce
>
>
> > Kate:
> >
> > With the two set as discussion points, e. e. cummings seems the more
> > mainline modern to me.  His poetry, even that of the country,  seems
> urban.
> > Frost seems throw-back pastoral; almost Georgian.  Much of Frost's
> Imagery,
> > like some of H.D., is of the countryside.  Of course as someone has said
> the
> > Pastoral is about the primitive urges of the Urban so maybe Frost is
> > primitive modern?  :>)  In all seriousness I would suppose that a paper
> > could be developed along the lines of Frost detailing, through
> Pastoralism,
> > a rejection of the decayed modern Urb.  (Maybe it has already been done)
> > Pound, who relished the Urb, would not probably agree but maybe Eliot
> would.
> >
> > Marianne Moore's images (note: little "i")  of animals, she is an
> > objectivist like Robert Creeley not a strict Imagist, might be
profitable.
> > You might also look at the "Amygism" of Amy Lowell, what Pound thought
> > Imagism gone astray,  in order to see vitiation of the idea.
> >
> > Are you interested in Imagism or Vorticism?  For an excellent discussion
> of
> > the Ideogramic method, which necessarily has a lot of good info on
> Imagism,
> > see,  _Ideogram, History of a Poetic Method_ by Laszlo K. Gefin.
Pound's
> > work on the Fenolosa papers would probably be of interest also.
> >
> > Be sure to keep your big "I" Images seperate from your little "i"
images.
> >
> > I don't think the ex-pat idea would work well.  William Carlos Williams
> and
> > Richard Aldington would be hard to work into such a scheme.
> >
> > Rick Seddon
> > McIntosh, NM, USA
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kate Cone" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce
> >
> >
> > > Tim:
> > >
> > > I've been reading C's poetry and bio's for over 30 years. In fact, as
a
> > > result of my research and inquiries to Jay Parini at Middlebury, a
Frost
> > > scholar and biographer, I've been asked to write the Cummings article
> for
> > > the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, which Parini is
editing.
> > > (wheeee!!!)
> > >
> > > Frost I knew as all American students do -- the anthologized poems. I
> > loved
> > > the imagery, but didn't "get" how deep they were then. But one little
> poem
> > > hit me a different way:
> > >
> > > The Secret Sits
> > >
> > > We dance 'round a ring and suppose.
> > > The secret sits in the middle and knows.
> > >
> > > Frost
> > >
> > > ****
> > >
> > > seeker of truth
> > >
> > > follow no path
> > > all paths lead where
> > >
> > > truth is here
> > >
> > > Cummings
> > >
> > > ****
> > >
> > > At first I thought of this type of poem as having a Zen influence, but
> on
> > > further investigation I learned that both C and F were tremendously
> > > influenced by Emerson, whose essay "Circles" pretty much pegs the
notion
> > of
> > > coming back: "I keep and pass and turn again." (Brahma).
> > >
> > > Anyway, the nature poetry of C and F are the most alike in that
regard.
> > > Where Pound comes in: he was among some other influential poets met in
> > > England and was instrumental in getting Frost's first two books
> > > well-reviewed in England, essentially "making" Frost the first and
> perhaps
> > > only best-selling American poet of the 20th century. As a young poet
at
> > > Harvard, Cummings' notebooks show a keen interest in being part of the
> > > imagist movement.
> > >
> > > I guess what I'm asking for are any thoughts at all about Pound's
> > influence
> > > and/or dealings with either Frost or Cummings. And with regard to Mr.
> > > Savage's comment about Frost's poor treatment of Pound -- if you could
> > > elaborate further on that/those incident/s, it would give me more
> > insight --
> > > was Frost abandoning a poet who helped  him in order to "lay low" from
> > > controversy? This will further my theory that Frost "invented" himself
> as
> > a
> > > Yankee farmer poet and didn't want to rock any boat by being involved
> > > (publicly) in the politics of the day. Cummings was much more "in your
> > > face."
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Kate
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Tim Romano" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:15 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce
> > >
> > >
> > > > Kate,
> > > > What do you think their work has in common? I see no similarity,
> though
> > I
> > > > must admit that I don't know cummings's work inside and out.
> > > > Tim Romano
> > > >
> > > > Kate Cone wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >I am writing my masters thesis on how E.E. Cummings and Robert
> Frost's
> > > > >poetry are related.
> > > >
> > >
>