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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 2, by EZRA POUND Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The age demanded an image / of its accelerated image
Last Line: "or the ""sculpture"" of rhyme."
First Line: The age demanded an image / of its accelerated image
Last Line: "or the ""sculpture"" of rhyme."
The age demanded an image
Of its accelerated grimace,
Something for the modern stage,
Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;
Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries
Of the inward gaze;
Better mendacities
Than the classics in paraphrase!
The "age demanded" chiefly a mold in plaster,
Made with no loss of time,
A prose cinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster
Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.
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