In my opinion, the particular tripartitie structure mentioned
below was a temporary one of Pound's, and a superficial one
at that.  The depth structure, working at various levels, is
the Dantesque one--hell, purg, paradise--and is applicable
for the entire poem, not just 1-16.
 
==Dan Pearlman
 
>
>> Does anyone know of any critics who have attempted a breakdown of the
>> first 16 Cantos (or even the entire work) in terms of this tri-partite
>> (ephemeral/recurrent/eternal) structure?  I have been working on it
>> myself, but it seems likely that someone would have attempted this
>> already.
>>
 
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