Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAUBERLEY: 2, by EZRA POUND Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For three years, diabolus in the scale Last Line: Left him as epilogues. | ||||||||
"Qu'est ce qu'ils savent de I'amour, et qu'est ce qu'ils peuvent comprendre? S'ils ne comprennent pas la poesie, s'ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu'est ce qu'ils peuvent comprendre de cette passion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose est grossiere et le parfum des violettes un tonnerre?" -- Caid Ali For three years, diabolus in the scale, He drank ambrosia, All passes, ANANGKE prevails, Came end, at last, to that Arcadia. He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, Amid her galaxies, NUKTIS AGALMA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Drifted. . .drifted precipitate, Asking time to be rid of. . . Of his bewilderment; to designate His new found orchid. . . To be certain. . .certain. . . (Amid aerial flowers). . .time for arrangements -- Drifted on To the final estrangement; Unable in the supervening blankness To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff Until he found his sieve. . . Ultimately, his seismograph: -- Given that is his "fundamental passion," This urge to convey the relation Of eye-lid and cheek-bone By verbal manifestation; To present the series Of curious heads in medallion -- He had passed, inconscient, full gaze, The wide-branded irides And botticellian sprays implied In their diastasis; Which anaesthesis, noted a year late, And weighed, revealed his great affect, (Orchid), mandate Of Eros, a retrospect. - - - - - - - Mouths biting empty air, The still stone dogs, Caught in metamorphosis, were Left him as epilogues. | 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 |
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