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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
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>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.
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>Canto 4
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>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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