The Poetics of Explanation in Modern American Poetry
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014 |
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ISBN | : 9781321034066 |
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The third chapter on Ezra Pound's The Cantos broadens my inquiry to the intersection of explanatory forms and poetic forms. I argue that it is a mistake to attribute the difficulty of the poem to understanding the explanatory theories contained in the poem. It may be nearly impossible to understand the poem's theories without paratextual aids, but all this proves is that The Cantos is not successful as a didactic poem.