>...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?