Rick

Well put (and a truly lovely passage from the Cantos!).

But, you wouldn't actually call EP an Imagist poet, would you?

ricks wrote:

>Dirk
>
>I will agree with you about the self-promotion and the use of Imagism to do
>that.  I also think that Imagism is a technique that Pound defined and then
>used.  He did not claim to have invented it.  It would be closer to say that
>he discovered it.  Imagism is essential to the Ideogramic method.
>
>Canto 4
>
>Ply over ply, thin glitter of water;
>Brook film bearing white petals,
>The pine at Takasago
>                 grows with the pine of Ise!
>The water whirls up the bright pale sand in the
>                                                             spring's mouth
>"Behold the Tree of Visages!"
>Forked branch-tips, flaming as if with lotus.
>                 Ply over ply
>The shallow eddying fluid,
>                 beneath the knees of the gods.
>
>Rick Seddon
>McIntosh, NM
>
>
>

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