Questions:
   What color are the faces in the crowd?  What color are the petals?



>From: "Jonathan P. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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>Subject: petals
>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:52:06 -0500
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>There's lots to gain from following the way Pound developed the supposedly
>instantaneous image in "In a Station of the Metro"--it was not the result
>of a sudden flash of inspiration, but the careful result of many months
>and many drafts, much pruning and selecting, which makes the incoherence
>of the image even more fascinating. It's possible to follow the whole
>process in one sitting via the ever-invaluable Poetry and Prose (See pp.
>147, 279, and 281 in Vol. I).
>
>It's also worth looking at Pound's poem "Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis
>Johannae Temple," from Exultations (1909).  In this poem, Pound also uses
>the image of petals as faces.
>
>So much for first intensities!
>
>Jonathan Gill
>Columbia University

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