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This 5 page paper is a close reading of Ezra Pound's poem, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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idea that images in poetry should be clear and precise. This paper explicates his poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and, using only the poem itself, discusses the way in which Pound
uses it to trace a history of literature. Discussion The first thing a reader notices is the mixture of languages in the poem. If were going to make any sense
out of it, at the very least we have to use outside sources to translate these phrases; Google has a translation feature. It may not be the best but it
will have to do. The first phrase is the poems header: "ODE POUR LELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE." This translates as "ODE FOR the ELECTION OF ITS SEPULCHRE." We immediately have
two questions: Who or what is the "its" referred to, and why is it "electing" (choosing) its tomb? Perhaps we can answer those questions after considering the poem in detail.
Lets first pick out all the non-English phrases and get them translated. "Idmen gar toi panth, os eni Troie" - this appears to be Greek, and translating it word for
word via a Greek-English on-line dictionary has not been useful; we can guess that the last word in the line is Troy, suggesting that we are dealing with ancient Greek.
However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are available on-line. "Capaneus" is a person; a Greek warrior who
blasphemed against Zeus, and whom Zeus killed with a lightning bolt as Capaneus attacked the city of Thebes (Lindemans). The next phrase appears to be French: "lan trentiesme De son
eage" but this too is not coming up as anything useful: "lan trentiesme" is translated "the year trentiesme"; "de son eage" comes back as "of sound eage." Google is not
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