>From: bob scheetz <[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: Re: Re Pound and Shakespeare >Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:21:29 -0500 > > >...the "Pull down thy vanity" passage....Any ideas about this? > >Jacob, ...why not the obvious, usura?... metafor for the unprecedented >vanity fair of bourgeois materialism? >bob > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:40 PM >Subject: Re Pound and Shakespeare > > > > In response to Professor Gill's suggestion for news about current > > projects, I expect my book, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D., a study of > > the relations between the two, to be published next year. > > And to fill in the dead air of the list, and return to an old > > controversy, the "Pull down thy vanity" passage. > > To the extent that I have been following the discussion, opinion > > has passed from the view that it is an expression of remorse to the idea > > that EP is cursing out the US army. Some reflection suggests that he is > > writing about the US as a whole --"rathe to destroy," etc But then there > > is the view that these lines are spoken by the goddess of the "eyes" in > > the preceding passage as a reproach to Pound, which reverses again. On >the > > other hand, would "eyes" speak -- symbolically or otherwise? > > Any ideas about this? well, bob, how about the obvious? that when a man uses the word "vanity", he means vanity .... especially when you know the relevant bible passage Vanitas vanitorum , y'all alan _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com