There has been some talk about 'high' art lately...was wondering what the general view is on 'high' versus 'low'? Are such positions that clearly defined? I'm unsure that there really is a facing off here.Versus, in the latin, is 'a turning'. I take it as not so much boustrophedon, as a plough turns, but rather cyclic, i.e. as Yeats might put it: sun and moon. Of course, this just may be an ideal way of thinking. Holistic. When I approach Pound, I don't view him as an elitist (or whatever 'high art' sign one would hang), rather as one who strove to create an organ of nature, a complex of movements. From the very end of the Cantos, from his Drafts & Fragments: "That I lost my center / fighting the world. / The dreams clash / and are shattered--/ and that I tried to make a paradiso/ terrestre". Would not Pound himself be the 'center', so to speak, heaven and earth revolving around him? His language use, throughout the Cantos specifically, tends to resonate, as an ideogram might, with a particular gravity and weight in their combinations. Even if the intellectual meaning is not found, the charging of words comes through, i.e. the reader moves through a darkness, needing only to 'feel-out' their way. This, it seems, is one of the greatest powers of the poem, forcing one to use other reliable sensibilities. Of course, a Virgil of some sort does help. Anyway, figured to post the question. My Best, CB