I've been reading Hugh Kenner's _The Pound Era_, Peter Makin's _Pound's Cantos_, and Ezra Pound's _Cantos_ (I-XXX); I just picked upWilliam Cookson's _A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound_, George Kearns' _The Cantos_ and a couple other books on the subject. My thesis statement (at first to be explained in a 3 page prospectus and later in a 50 page thesis): Ezra Pound's Vorticism, as illustrated in Cantos I - XXX, employs the use of "subject-rhymes," in the form of historical and imagistic relations, where meanings develop as the context changes; with this in mind, the concept of order, itself, has become an issue (focus / theme) of Cantos -- appearing to be chaotic, their structure arises like a vortex, assuming the form of the transpiration of real-world events. I welcome any and all ideas. David Centrone