Jonathan and others

Pound stated that metamorphosis was to be one of the central themes of his
poem.  In Canto II he begins his study of metamorphosis.  He suspends the
process and tears it apart as part of that study.  To me any other reading
must be secondary to this theme.

As far as Marxist theory is concerned perhaps the fault lays with society
instead of with modernism.  Maybe the "material processes of social reality"
just aren't as real as Marxists have assured us they are.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM

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