February 07

I found it very interesting that Lowell and Pound had such a hard time working together or should I say working within the same group, the Imagists.  The conflict was so great that Pound actually left the group for another similar movement called Vorticism.  The only said difference in the Vorticism and the Imagist was that Vorticism insisted on dynamism.  Pound stated that Lowell had degraded the name of the Imagist and renamed her works in the movement as “Amygism”.  Pound is very interesting and has a somewhat blackened history from his time supporting Anti-Semite actions.  I’m thinking that Pound tried a little too hard to be at the cutting edge of ideas and ended up making a mistake that he later claimed to regret.  The indictment of treason being rescinded was very surprising.  How can a group of poets claiming his poetry is of such importance get Pound off the hook?  I may have to look a little more into Pound’s life.  It is very interesting.  In a Station of Metro isn’t much of a poem, but when you read the notes behind it, it is very interesting.  It took him a year to decide on these two lines to explain what he saw and felt.  It goes back to Pound’s determination to create an image exactly as it was seen, felt, ect…