>...the "Pull down thy vanity" passage....Any ideas about this?

Jacob,    ...why not the obvious, usura?... metafor for the unprecedented
vanity fair of bourgeois materialism?
bob




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From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: Re Pound and Shakespeare


> In response to Professor Gill's suggestion for news about current
> projects, I expect my book, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D., a study of
> the relations between the two, to be published next year.
>  And to fill in the dead air of the list, and return to an old
> controversy, the "Pull down thy vanity" passage.
>         To the extent that I have been following the discussion, opinion
> has passed from the view that it is an expression of remorse to the idea
> that EP is cursing out the US army. Some reflection suggests that he is
> writing about the US as a whole --"rathe to destroy," etc But then there
> is the view that these lines are spoken by the goddess of the "eyes" in
> the preceding passage as a reproach to Pound, which reverses again. On the
> other hand, would "eyes" speak -- symbolically or otherwise?
>         Any ideas about this?