tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091894388265947128.post6342684351791465868..comments2023-06-13T09:51:49.558-04:00Comments on The Book Stew: A Lume Spento by Ezra PoundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091894388265947128.post-31056364773278161152011-05-09T18:24:49.651-04:002011-05-09T18:24:49.651-04:00Rob, I'm posting 'Cino' by Pound here ...Rob, I'm posting 'Cino' by Pound here in the hope of converting you. I'm not sure if it was published in a Lume Spento, but if it was and you read it and disliked it, then you clearly need to read it again. Just look at those sexy metrics!<br /><br /> CINO<br /><br /> Italian Campagna 1309, the open road<br /><br />Bah! I have sung women in three cities,<br />But it is all the same;<br />And I will sing of the sun.<br /><br />Lips, words, and you snare them,<br />Dreams, words, and they are as jewels,<br />Strange spells of old deity,<br />Ravens, nights, allurement:<br />And they are not;<br />Having become the souls of song.<br /><br />Eyes, dreams, lips, and the night goes.<br />Being upon the road once more,<br />They are not.<br />Forgetful in their towers of our tuneing<br />Once for wind-runeing<br />They dream us-toward and<br />Sighing, say, ``Would Cino,<br />Passionate Cino, of the wrinkling eyes,<br />Gay Cino, of quick laughter,<br />Cino, of the dare, the jibe.<br />Frail Cino, strongest of his tribe<br />That tramp old ways beneath the sun-light,<br />Would Cino of the Luth were here!''<br /><br />Once, twice a year---<br />Vaguely thus word they:<br /><br />``Cino?'' ``Oh, eh, Cino Polnesi<br />The singer is't you mean?''<br />``Ah yes, passed once our way,<br />A saucy fellow, but . . .<br />(Oh they are all one these vagabonds),<br />Peste! 'tis his own songs?<br />Or some other's that he sings?<br />But *you*, My Lord, how with your city?''<br /><br />My you ``My Lord,'' God's pity!<br />And all I knew were out, My Lord, you<br />Were Lack-land Cino, e'en as I am,<br />O Sinistro.<br /><br />I have sung women in three cities.<br />But it is all one.<br />I will sing of the sun.<br />. . . eh? . . . they mostly had grey eyes,<br />But it is all one, I will sing of the sun.<br /><br />``'Pollo Phoibee, old tin pan, you<br />Glory to Zeus' aegis-day,<br />Shield o' steel-blue, th' heaven o'er us<br />Hath for boss thy lustre gay!<br /><br />'Pollo Phoibee, to our way-fare<br />Make thy laugh our wander-lied;<br />Bid thy 'flugence bear away care.<br />Cloud and rain-tears pass they fleet!<br /><br />Seeking e'er the new-laid rast-way<br />To the gardens of the sun . . .<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />I have sung women in three cities<br />But it is all one.<br />I will sing of the white birds<br />In the blue waters of heaven,<br />The clouds that are spray to its sea."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091894388265947128.post-82106402821224268302010-11-02T19:01:31.846-04:002010-11-02T19:01:31.846-04:00Hi! I am a highschool student and am doing a resea...Hi! I am a highschool student and am doing a research paper about Ezra Pound! <br /><br />I can't find out what exactly Ezra Pound wrote about in his poems... <br /><br />If you could fill in the blanks in this sentence then I would be very happy!! Thank you very much!<br /><br />Ezra Pound was a modernist writer who wrote poems about__________ as a result of ____________<br /><br />( as a result of ) means what influenced him in his writing..<br /><br />I dont know if you know this much about Pound, but i would love all the help i can get!<br /><br />Thank you :)Vidar Hansennoreply@blogger.com