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Tag Archives: Ezra Pound
Poems that Celebrate Long Marriages
Two poems to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, by Kunitz and Fanthorpe.
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Apparition of Unmasked Student Faces
The apparition of unmasked student faces brought to mind Ezra Pound’s famous poem.
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Skiddeth Bus and Sloppeth Us
Pound’s “Ancient Music” is the perfect poem for people feeling overwhelmed by snow.
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Love in the Time of Covid-19
For my 47th wedding anniversary, I reflect upon the concluding chapter of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” which seems only fitting.
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Blizzard Jonas: How the Wind Doth Ramm!
In “Ancient Music” Ezra Pound voices what all those who were hit hard by the weekend’s Jonas Blizzard were thinking–and often saying.
Pound’s Description of a Long Marriage
With every passing year of my marriage, which hits 42 years today, my appreciation for Ezra Pound’s “River-Merchant’s Wife” grows.
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Giants Stand Tall, Defy Ezra Pound
The San Francisco Giants would make their 1960’s forebears proud.
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Austen’s Good Enough Match
First of all, a happy birthday to Jane Austen (thanks to my mother for pointing this out). Jane would have been 234 today. My students have been bothered by the Marianne-Brandon marriage that concludes Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and I’m inclined to agree with them. Kat Vander Wende reasonably pointed out that the sought-after […]
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