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 > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: petals >Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:52:06 -0500 > >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 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com