Ezra's Life

Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885. He was the child of Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Pound. His father worked as a Federal Land Officer, and eventually had moved his family to Philly due to him recieving a job at the U.S Mint. He had a pretty normal childhood, playing outside while his two parents happily watched. Witht the support of his parents, the age of 15 is when Ezra decided he was going to be a poet.  He went to a military school for half of his high school career, then finished it at a local public school nearby. Pound went to the University of Pennsylvania, later transfered to the Hamilton College in Clinton, recieving a bachelor's degree in philosophy. After moving abroad, he had a daughter with violinist Olga Rudge, and the following year had a son with wife Dorothy. Pound's most famous work, The Cantos was seperated int many different works. Most of which noticed after his death in 1972. He published over 70 books, and helped with 70 others and wrote over 1500 articles in his lifetime.

Documentary of Ezra Pound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdelS1J0as&feature=player_detailpage

My Question, Not Really Pressing Because I Could Care Less To Be Honest

Alright, so this "Pressing Question," i am supposed to have is kind of a question that i am sure everyone is gunna ask once they have read a tiny bit about this loon. Why in the world is he such a good writer, if the way he thinks and acts is crazy. He heils Hitler, and is one of his little minions, yet his poems are pretty awesome. Like this dude is almost bipolar in a way. I guess the answer to this question is that most writers are bipolar in some way or another. I guess not him so much, but a lot of writers write about their life, or their feelings. Pound kind of writes in that way, but he writes more about images and what he sees than what he really feels. Im guessing that is more of my answer. He could sit in a park and write a million short poems, each more moving than the next, but yet that is not his intention. Like Cory had said in class the other day, many artists write just to write. Many people think there is more meaning then is really on the page. People always have to find meanings for everything, they cant just read something and go on. I think that is why Pound IS such a good poet. He just writes, and doesnt really think anything of it. Im sure there are some poems that he is really passionate about, but reading a lot of his material, he just writes becasue he was either bored on some sort of drug. haha im so funny.

Old Ezra

Young  Old  Older



decrepit

Unleash the Demons

Heather: i actually really like the way Ezra writes. He does make me visualize what he is talking about, and/or looking at as he is writing this. When he talks about the black panther and the white girl, it robs everything else around him of color. To me, it makes me think of how dominant the black and white are. The fact that he used "panther" and "leopard" as animals is like a rough soft touch. Both of these animals are cute and cuddly but very visious. They are beautiful animalss but you cant trust them. Saying that the white girl is coming down from the tree, makes me foreshadow and wonder what the animals will or wont do.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/heather-5/

A Ballad of a Mulberry Road: i really like this poem. The first verse talks solomly of the young pretty girl. He really describes the way she does things. Her hair, how its on the left side of her head with a headpiece. The way he makes the reader imagine what the basket looks like, and how she holds it on her shoulders. The second verse talks more about what she looks like. The color of her skirts, her earrings, and the way she makes the boys look at her. By this poem, you can tell she is very attractive and makes heads turn. Not one time did he say anything about that in this poem. Yet the way he describes everything, you get that understanding.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-the-mulberry-road/

Ezra on the Strike: this poem is one of those autobiography poems. He is writing about his strike and the United States portion of his life. He really does describe about Thanksgiving coming soon, and the days and nights getting colder, coal getting cheaper and turkeys more expensive.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ezra-on-the-strike/

La Descriptiones De Imaginista

Imagist Description: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5658

Nicotine: ..."So thou my mist-enwreathéd queen,
Nicotine, white Nicotine,
Riding engloried in they hair
Mak'st by-road of our dreams
Thy thorough-fare."
Este poema es un gran ejemplo de imaginism. Se da gran descripción de lo que Ezra estaba tratando de retratar.

Salutation:... "I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
I have seen their smiles full of teeth
and heard ungainly laughter."
Este poema saludo realmente le da una buena descripción de lo que Ezra había visto. Él quiere que el lector vea lo que ve.

A Virginal: ..."Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers.
Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches..."
Ezra siente vientos suaves, y trata de explicar a lo largo de ver verde a su alrededor. El uso de las metáforas como lo hace, por lo que usted visualiza los árboles en la primavera.

A Girl: ..."The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast -
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms."
Esto es realmente peom givng una gran descripción de la ezra árbol está en. Hablando de la savia y las ramas como brazos realmente te da la descripción visual que necesita.

Heather: ..."The milk-white girls
Unbend from the holly-trees,
And their snow-white leopard
Watches to follow our trace."
 La lectura de este poema realmente me hizo imaginar a una niña blanca que baja de un árbol. Esto realmente me hizo imaginar una nieve blanca leopardo al acecho esperando a la chica

Author's Credo

"The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Read more at http://www.ranker.com/list/a-list-of-famous-ezra-pound-quotes/reference#FxdJMUMU0tZCaF1A.99

The words "vortex," and "cluster," already are painting a picture in my head. "Fused ideas," are making me think of ideas put together, almost bonded together. This quote is totally perfect for him. I mean he was an imagist who painted pictures using words for his readers. Imagists take ideas and pictures and describe them, using words. They write poems in which using every detail of what they are descibing. The paint you pictures in your head t "imagine" what they are talking about. Every little detail counts, and you need to see what they see right down to the itty bitty minor details. 

Before Sleep: ..."You were gone up as a rocket,
Bending your passages from right to left and from left to right
In the flat projection of a spiral."
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501905-Before_Sleep-by-Ezra_Pound


The Bathtub: ..."As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady."
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501923-The_Bath-Tub-by-Ezra_Pound


Nicotine: ..."As were Godiva's coming fated
And all the April's blush belated
Were lain before her, carpeting
The stones of Coventry with spring"
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8501919-Nicotine-by-Ezra_Pound

Pound's Crazy Quotes

Pound is a freak, his morals now adays are looked upon as a crazy person. He was also an imagist. Which means he was very visual and discriptional when he wrote. Imagist were people who wrote peoms in free-verse style, and did a lot of description and used words as visual description. These quotes, to me, jumped out and made me want to share them. These describe him and the way her thought.


"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression"
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ezrapound160036.html#zXGx5UdXDX1yaHrb.99

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ezrapound160052.html#zB8upCP1yBqjZBMR.99

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ezrapound160050.html#lgQ1yLpvl8U6A0WH.99

Ezra's Cause of Writing

Ezra was a fascist, and got arrested for his broadcasting propoganda on the United States radio. He was sent to a crazy person hospital, because he was declare mentally ill. Those events right there most-likely had a huge impact on the way he wrote. I mean for crying out loud he is a crazy person. Mr. Pound also cheated on his wife, with his own nanny. When the nanny told the wife, she left him and went to Egypt. When she arrived back with Ezra, she was pregnant herself. This dude didn't have the greatest life, dont you think. His children lived very different lives, in which the daughter was brought up poor and a church girl, while his son was attending a boarding school. Although all this negative stuff happened, some good things happened to Pound as well. He recieved a doctorate from Hamilton College, which following after went back to Italy to write in the Italian Newspaper. Guess what his post was, "The Jews, Disease Incarnate." He signed the letter he wrote to James Laughlin "Heil Hitler." After the war broke out, he would write campaigns complaing about the United States, and how they need to keep out of this war. All these events HAD to have influenced his writing. This guy is crazy!!!

I Am disection

The I Am statements i have chosen for Ezra Pound, was kind of a filler post. I didnt really know how to go about this project, so i just picked 5 simple sentences that sort of explained my auther. Some of those sentences really do explain his life, some of them are just like ehh, whatever. My sentence about his wife and the nanny, that really does have to do a lot about this guy's life. He wasn't an "amazing" person. That sentence supports my hypothesis about Mr. Pound. This dude was kind of a weird ass man. He was a fascist and an imagist, kind of strange.

Maplan

My plan is to do what someone had mentioned earlier in class today. They had said that they wanted to do a scavenger hunt within the blog. i kind of want to remix that and do it throughout the interent. I really dont know how, but it does sound interesting and different and would helo people learn more about my author than just reading a boring old essay. If i dont decide to do that, i will probably do like a website or a facebook page. i do, no matter what, want to include pictures and music to my project. Just because visuals and audio examples help me learn better than just reading something. I know that i am not the only one that thinks that way, so i want to do it the way that i would want to learn about something. I feel like i could have a lot of fun with this project, the only thing that is im my way is time. I do want to have more time on this, just so i could do a really good job on it. hopefully i am not the only one that feels like this, just so majority rules in my favor. FINGERS CROSSED

Alternative Vocab Remix (SEE what i did there)

okay, since i didnt get a chance to do my remix that i had planned on, i picked an alternative solution. I was going to do it with one of my friends Charlie. She used to be an acquaintance of mine, but now we are slowly becoming friends. One defect to my situation is the fact that i have been so busy this entire weekend. From finishing up all my missing assignments, to cleaning my house and room; my mom says i have been living like a savage beast for the past month, i have had such a chronic agenda. To keep my sanity, i actually started back up my business of making hair bows and shorts. you should check it out! Anyways, i had such great remorse for blowing her off, and blowing Dr. Preston off for not doing my vocab remix. My implication to Dr. P was that i would have done this remix a couple weeks ago, and i never got to it. I really dont want to spoil my remix, and i dont want anyone to take my idea, but i will say this idea has exploded and its a great phenomenon in our generation right now. I will gives hints however, my remix has no sentimental value to it. Pardon the fact that it IS from two very popular tv/movies!(; The morality of my remix, that will possible happen one day is very unique, i think. Hopefully you will like it, but I THINK its worth the wait.

See what i did there...AGAIN!

YEAH BUDDY!!!

YESS!!! i am officially caught up with all my missing work on the blog Dr. P! and let me tell you, it feels pretty amazing, considering i would normally be in class right now if it was a teacher's day. (: ah! now all i have to do is my remix for the vocab, and i think you will really like it...

Josie College

I AM SO EXCITED FOR COLLEGE. Believe it of not my number one choice is UCLA. yes i know i do not have the grades for it right now. But i will, before i die, be a student at the University of California Las Angeles. Ever since i was a child i have fallen in love with every aspect of the college. During my childhood i spent a lot of time in their hospital with my uncle. Since i was only a few years old, i had admired the nurses, doctors, students, their cafeteria! About the age of 7 or 8, I had made up my mind in being a Pediatric Surgeon at the Mattel's Children's Hospital located at UCLA's campus. It's my DREAM to work their, maybe side by side the doctors i have admired year after year. I could go on and on about this, for and hours and hours on end. I plan on going to a different university for my general ed, possibly going on a cheer scholarship  or going to a community college and transferring later on. Once i start studying in the "medical" field, i will have no time for anything but school. I want to keep all my options open though, just in case one plan fails, i have plenty more. Im going to end this blog post because i can seriously talk about this FOREVER!!!!!

I Am Ezra Pound

I am an only child of Homer Loomis Pound and Isabel Weston.
I am a spouse to Dorothy Shakespear.
I am a father to my daughter whose mother is not my wife. Her mother is my peasant, Olga Rudge. When Olga told Dorothy about my daughter, she left to Egypt and came back pregnant herself. 
I am the father of a son as well, who grew up with his grandmother until old enough to go to boarding school. 
I am the father of two children who grew up two very different childhoods. 

Map 1: Introducing Ezra Pound

Ezra had a GREAT mustache, very creepy looking.
Ezra was an only child , and his grandparents were immigrants from England in the 17th centruy.
Ezra met Hilda Doolittle at the University of Pennsylvania. (she was my second choice)
Ezra returned to England and was an AMERICAN tour guide for quick money (kind of ironic)
Ezra SUPPORTED ADOLF HITLER and was incarcerated.

Applied Modernism

Fahrenheit 451 is a modernist work because...? For many reasons! Modern or modernism doesn't necessarily mean at this moment, right now. Modernism doesn't really mean modern at all if you look at it a certain way. My opinion, Fahrenheit 451 definitely is modernist work. Many many times in this novel Mr. Bradbury talks about the future. What the future will hold, what technological ideas will surface, everything about the future without us even noticing. Modernism is going outside of the box. Kind of like transcendentalism. This is definitely what Bradbury did. Not only did his writing go outside the norm with his ideas and creations, but also the character Guy Montag did as well. He kept books in secret, which was especially out of the normal because he was a fireman who burnt houses down that possessed them. Throughout this novel, there are many examples of modernism, finding them on your own is the challenge.

Modernism Writing

My writing has changed so much in the past five years. I have grown up dramatically, learned many more sophisticated words, and realized that you are being judged in this world everyday. Everything you do, everything you say, everything is being judged. In the past five years; we have gotten a new president, captured and killed the most wanted man in the world, new technology has come about. So many changes are happening in this world. Everyday things are changing, so many aspects of this world are modernizing, and to ask what has happened in the past five? That's a huge spectrum to go off of. My writing, .my demeanor  everything has changed subconsciously.