Is this one of the most important poems of the 20th century?

[milo]

It's popular because Ezra Pound, the poet laureate of pseudo intellectualism. Lobotomised dimwits think him to be some sort of fucking genius poet who straddled east and west or something like that, but he didn't. He was a tedious poser who wrote like what I imagine Donal Trump Jr would write like. 

People who claim they like Pound think they like him because hey, everyone who's smart likes Pound. For some unfathomable reason.

The poem itself - it's okay, an observation. Not great, not terrible.

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PS - this is before his anti semitism or the general nastiness of this usurper as a person, but based on the vapid mediocrity of his work alone. After all, there was a time when it didn't take much other than being a white American to be celebrated in Europe.

hmmm . . . you definitely feel pretty strongly about E. Pound.  He has a bit of a reputation as a rather horrible person.  I know some who are fond of his poetry, he is one of those I just never got around to reading.  He was also, iirc, the chief editor of Poetry magazine at the time as well as the founder of the imagist movement so he had kind of a strangle hold on poetry.

That being said, I was more interested in this particular poem and why it has such a reputation as either the most important or one of the most important poems of the 20th century.  It's pretty short to carry such gravitas.

Thanks for the reply