04-14-2021, 08:00 AM
I read Ezra Pound with adoration in my twenties, but when I read him now, the tang of authoritarianism that laces his work is hard to take.
But you are not done with the Confederate Dead. Scholars tell me (and Tate agreed) it's about Narcissism. I was wondering how that jaguar got into the poem.
And lastly, a quote I found while hunting up Xeno and Parmenides:
Seneca the Younger commented a few centuries later: "If I accede to Parmenides there is nothing left but the One; if I accede to Zeno, not even the One is left."
But you are not done with the Confederate Dead. Scholars tell me (and Tate agreed) it's about Narcissism. I was wondering how that jaguar got into the poem.
And lastly, a quote I found while hunting up Xeno and Parmenides:
Seneca the Younger commented a few centuries later: "If I accede to Parmenides there is nothing left but the One; if I accede to Zeno, not even the One is left."