LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: “Melting like dirty wax, /decayed candles, the bums sinking lower, /faces submerged under hams.”
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It explores the theme of the perversion of language.
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It deeply identifies with Dante’s “Inferno” in terms of tone and thick description.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Strong claims have been made for it as the most significant work of modernist poetry of the twentieth century. As in Pound’s prose writing, the themes of economics, governance and culture are integral to its content.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Canto I’ is a translation of one part of The Odyssey. In this section of The Odyssey, Pound translates Odysseus’ journey into the realm of the dead. He speaks briefly on Circe’s island, what the trip along the sea is like, and then about the edges of the earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ezra Pound, in his 1913 Poetry magazine article ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’, defines what he means by image: “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instance of time”. It isn’t a clear-cut definition, but it’s a useful and interesting way of looking at poetry.
Detailed explanation-4: -He put it this way: Literature is news that STAYS news. (Quoted from Chapter 6, “Literchoor Is My Beat”by Ian S. MacNiven.