I would like to repose a question I asked earlier, but this time in a
different manner.  Stated broadly, the question would be:  Do you think
Pound had a religion, and if so what was it?

Stated as a list of shorter queries: Would you say Pound was essentially a
humanist or a secularist?   How important was sexual experience in Pound’s
view of the sacred?  Did Pound view myths simply as stories, or was Pound,
in any sense, a genuine pagan, who sees religious significance in mythology?
  Are Pound’s religious views (assuming he has any) related in a direct way
or in an indirect way to his views on social and economic matters?

Is the use of light imagery in much of Pound’s poetry solely symbolic, in a
purely aesthetic sense, or does it reflect any religious preoccupation,
related in some way to Pound’s Quaker heritage, and the Quaker notion of the
“Inner Light,” or “god within”?  Does Pound’s use of Provençal materials
suggest any religious, philosophical, or metaphysical preoccupation, and if
so, how could it be qualified?

What does Pound mean (in the poetry and the prose) when he uses the word
“God” or gods?  Does the word “god” in Pound’s poetry indicate a belief in
deity, or is it simply (as one critic put it) “a notation of an
extraordinary experience”?

In what sense is Confucianism (in general) a religion, and in what sense is
Pound’s Confucianism a religion, a philosophy, or a metaphysical--moral
groundwork to serve as the basis for other aspects of Pound’s strivings?



Regards,

Wei



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