Before Sleep Comments

Nicely expressed thoughts and feelings. Thanks for sharing and do remain enriched...................

The reference to mythical figures makes the poem hightened in its flavour of deliverance.

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In addition, he doesnt want 'sympathy'. He accepts that he should be looked down with pity for he exchanged wisdom for money.

REPLY TO MR. HAGER: Apparently, the persona in the poem is a person who has a 'side job' that helps him in his financial needs. However, the persona seems to be unhappy with such work as it is not intellectually fulfilling. Thus, he seeks Pallas in his sleep...since it's only there that he will meet wisdom...only in his dreams.. I like the poem.

For 'pathetic/pathetically' read sympathetic/sympathetically. This INVOCATION poem curiously invokes the wrong goddess. Pallas (Athena) governs wisdom, war, and the practical arts. For a good night's sleep, one might better invoke Nyx, mother of night, or her son Hypnos, god of sleep....Words & phrases like 'rocket' and 'flat projection of a spiral' fail to 'modernize' the poem....Has some pretty lines but some awkward ones, too. Not among Pound's best.