Who was Ezra Pound? (the Short Version) Like so many poets he was mentally ill, insane it has been said.
Went to the mental hospital twice, once in 1946 to 1958, in Washington D.
C.
, and once in Italy; where he died in 1972, at the ripe old age of 87, if I recall right (born 1885, October 30th).
I wrote an article some years ago, and offended a few of my colleagues, saying in so many words: most poets have issues, problems, mental problems.
And if I was to pull out that old article, I could quote all the poets I had on there.
I might even have had Ezra Pound on there, I can't remember.
But being insane, might be like saying he was eccentric, in some places like Minnesota that is allowable today.
In 1947, it wasn't.
Thus, I'd be classified in a like manner if it wasn't.
Poetry takes an inner ear, within the soul to be able to produce it--a silence to enmesh it to the next level.
During the last years of his life, he gave only one interview that I know if, he became a recluse for the most part.
"Cathay," is one of his better works.
His hero was Yeats (who was also a friend), yet it was Robert Frost who got him out of the nut house in 1958.
He had an endless line of friends, perhaps more than the sane folks of his day.
In addition, He is noted for being one of the leaders of the Modernist Movement, which took place between 1914-1965; this period of poetry gave way to what I call the conscious re-examination of what poetry is and traditional forms and styles.
Imagery was a way of interpretation; the complexities of stresses, etc were looked at.
In his last years, they say, those who were lucky enough to be allowed to visit him, he chattered on and on and on about poetry and reminisces.
It sounds like me already, I mean, what else does an 87-year old man do? 1/20/2007
Went to the mental hospital twice, once in 1946 to 1958, in Washington D.
C.
, and once in Italy; where he died in 1972, at the ripe old age of 87, if I recall right (born 1885, October 30th).
I wrote an article some years ago, and offended a few of my colleagues, saying in so many words: most poets have issues, problems, mental problems.
And if I was to pull out that old article, I could quote all the poets I had on there.
I might even have had Ezra Pound on there, I can't remember.
But being insane, might be like saying he was eccentric, in some places like Minnesota that is allowable today.
In 1947, it wasn't.
Thus, I'd be classified in a like manner if it wasn't.
Poetry takes an inner ear, within the soul to be able to produce it--a silence to enmesh it to the next level.
During the last years of his life, he gave only one interview that I know if, he became a recluse for the most part.
"Cathay," is one of his better works.
His hero was Yeats (who was also a friend), yet it was Robert Frost who got him out of the nut house in 1958.
He had an endless line of friends, perhaps more than the sane folks of his day.
In addition, He is noted for being one of the leaders of the Modernist Movement, which took place between 1914-1965; this period of poetry gave way to what I call the conscious re-examination of what poetry is and traditional forms and styles.
Imagery was a way of interpretation; the complexities of stresses, etc were looked at.
In his last years, they say, those who were lucky enough to be allowed to visit him, he chattered on and on and on about poetry and reminisces.
It sounds like me already, I mean, what else does an 87-year old man do? 1/20/2007
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