Yesterday, 03:53 AM
It's popular because Ezra Pound, the poet laureate of pseudo intellectualism. Lobotomised dimwits think him to be some sort of fucking genius poet who straddled east and west or something like that, but he didn't. He was a tedious poser who wrote like what I imagine Donal Trump Jr would write like.
People who claim they like Pound think they like him because hey, everyone who's smart likes Pound. For some unfathomable reason.
The poem itself - it's okay, an observation. Not great, not terrible.
PS - this is before his anti semitism or the general nastiness of this usurper as a person, but based on the vapid mediocrity of his work alone. After all, there was a time when it didn't take much other than being a white American to be celebrated in Europe.
People who claim they like Pound think they like him because hey, everyone who's smart likes Pound. For some unfathomable reason.
The poem itself - it's okay, an observation. Not great, not terrible.
PS - this is before his anti semitism or the general nastiness of this usurper as a person, but based on the vapid mediocrity of his work alone. After all, there was a time when it didn't take much other than being a white American to be celebrated in Europe.