Friday, January 3, 2003

A Pact Comments

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I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
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Ezra Pound
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Chinedu Dike 08 June 2020

Well expressed thoughts and feelings.............

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Nate Higgers 19 December 2018

The first ever diss track

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Marcia 29 July 2018

i would like to know what was W. W. answer

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Grade Saver 02 March 2020

To understand this short poem, it is first necessary to explore Pound's negative feelings towards Walt Whitman. In 1909, Pound wrote an essay titled " What I Feel About Walt Whitman, " in which he denounced the older poet's " crudity" and " barbaric yawp."

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Sultan Sher 03 June 2018

Beautiful poem really heart touching

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Morgan Michaels 17 December 2017

Masterful poem has been worked and re-worked to seem spontaneous. Beautifully shaped lines advance a generous argument, stroke by stroke.

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Anil Kumar Panda 17 December 2017

Nice poem. Enjoyed. 'Now is a time for carving. We have one sap and one root - Let there be commerce between us. '..is beautiful.

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Glen Kappy 17 December 2017

What I like about Pound is in this poem and his ballad The Goodly Fere. It is the mark of self-awareness—if not more—to admit we’re wrong, yes? This poem is so direct as to appear spontaneous. Perhaps some may think artless. But it has two excellent metaphors, excellent in part because they’re so accessible, so relatable. GK

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Edward Kofi Louis 17 December 2017

Old enough! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 17 December 2017

Such a well-written poem by Ezra Pound👍👍👍

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John Chizoba Vincent 17 December 2017

Wonderful words. Well delivered

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 17 December 2017

And by this arrangement they are now set forth as the objects of love.......outstanding concept.........thanks for sharing

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Sylvaonyema Uba 14 February 2017

Now is a time for carving. Good delivery. Well done! Sylva.

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Pankaj Saksena 28 October 2009

@ Stanton Hager - I think no one, as poetry is all but dead in this new age of confusion. The crap that those post-modernists can not be called poetry by sane people.

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AMV 09 June 2022

Pound's not so weighty anymore

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Stanton Hager 20 August 2006

I wonder who will be the next GREAT poet in English to make a 'pact' with Pound...

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