Ezra Pound's Apparition
- Richard Mather
- Apr 9, 2004
- 1 min read
Ezra Pound's Apparition
When I called for the
Direct treatment of the thing,
Ezra Pound saw at once that if
Words are to be as things,
Language must be man-made.
And when I called for the
Other sex to be remade as
Objects, Pound went further and
Converted an entire crowd into a
Bough with blossoms.
But why 'apparition,' I asked.
It's hardly a thing at all.
And ‘petals on a wet, black bough’
Sounds too pastoral, unmanly even,
Not what I expected at all.
