Tim,
re-reading your In Exile,
themes of loneliness, wonder, memory, piety, fatalism...
and thinking on the odysseus theme in the cantos
compared to homer, joyce, tennyson...
...came to realize how unclear pound's usage is.
seems he's really more the adventurer,
maybe had better used herodotus?
anyway,
and not to impose,
but seeing as how
you must have pondered this metaphor deeply;
would like to hear your view of pounds notion
of the essence of the wanderer/odysseus
story.
thanks,
bob
James,
Pound wrote:
"I believe that a light from Eleusis persisted
throughout the middle ages and set beauty in the song of Provence and of
Italy."
You should also read "Religio" to get a
sense of what Pound meant when he talked about man becoming god. He is not
being facetious (though the tone of the piece _ is _ playful) when he
writes:
When does a man become a god?
When he enters one of these states of
mind.
Tim Romano