|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IKON, by EZRA POUND Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It is in the art hightes business to create the beautiful image
Last Line: In that long dreaming; to strew our path to valhalla; to give rich gifts by the way.
First Line: It is in the art hightes business to create the beautiful image
Last Line: In that long dreaming; to strew our path to valhalla; to give rich gifts by the way.
It is in art the highest business to create the beautiful image; to create order and profusion
of images that we may furnish the life of our minds with a noble surrounding.
And if -- as some say, the soul survives the body; if our consciousness is not an intermittent
melody of strings that relapse between whiles into silence, then more than ever should we put
forth the images of beauty, that going out into tenantless
spaces we have with us all that is needful -- an abundance of sounds and patterns to entertain us
in that long dreaming; to strew our path to Valhalla; to give rich gifts by the way.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
ABU SALAMMAMM - A SONG OF EMPIRE by EZRA POUND
HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 10 by EZRA POUND
HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 11 by EZRA POUND