"Portrait d'une Femme" by Ezra Pound (poetry reading)

The poem was written in 1912 by Ezra Pound, the Bob Dylan of his day, at the same time as T S Eliot's Portrait of a Lady (1911) and when Henry James's Portrait of a Lady (1881) was in vogue. Presumably the French title was to avoid ambiguity. There's more information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portrait_of_a_Lady
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/m_r/pound/femme.htm

He got a rejection slip saying, "the first line has too many r's in it"

You can read James' novel here:
http://fiction.eserver.org/novels/portrait.html

The Sargasso Sea is an area of the Atlantic which is in the vortex of ciculating currents and therefore accumulates weeds and floating detritus - mostly non-biodegradable plastics these days.

The picture is from a recent cover of the novel

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[1776Matthew]

Pound just SLIGHTLY towers above Bob Dylan... Just slightly. I think the video poster's comparison in the description is ridiculous. Pound is a genuine intellect. Dylan writes pop-songs.

And didn't Pound have a bit of a problem with a certain type of people? Bob Dylan being a member of that "tribe", I doubt Pound would appreciate the comparison.

[SpokenVerse]

@1776Matthew If you google for images of Bob Dylan and Ezra Pound, you'll notice that there's a striking resemblance. However I know where you're coming from: Dylan is a talented Jew, Pound is a talented anto-semite and you're a politcal snob.

[1776Matthew]

@SpokenVerse I wish I could get myself into "snobish" circles, but alas, I don't think they'd have me. Too rough around the edges.

The good kind of "snobs" that is. Those who are just genuinely intellectual, and yet are perceived as "snobs" by those who can't keep up.

At any rate, your outlandish comparison aside, thanks for posting the clip. I'll peruse your channel for more gems.

[SpokenVerse]

@1776Matthew Googling your nick, your remarks sound like Ezra Pound's WW2 pro-nazi broadcasts. You posted a video about a "final solution" to the "black problem". I'm going to delete any political comments you make - this channel is about poetry. But, by all means, listen to a few more poems. All the best, Tom.

[menkbabe1]

For me, this poem well evokes admiration of women and a woman, as it also has an unsettled and not stated admiration that seems erotic.

Maybe that is in my mind. But such a praise of the feminine is by itself admirable, and has stood a test of time from 1912 by Ezra Pound.

I am so glad for these Spoken Verse YouTube readings you've posted. I enjoy them everyday, just as I have enjoyed this well done oral readng. Who is reading?

Peter Menkin

Mill Valley, CA USA

north of San Francisco

[SpokenVerse]

I read everything in this channel. The name I use here is Tom O'Bedlam.

[annadelica]

I am so grateful for your channel! You have the most incredible voice and such a wide selection of wonderful poems. Keep it up!

[TheRapeOfJustice]

@1776Matthew , Ezra Pound had many Jewish friends, he saved several Jewish poets in Italy during the war. Pound's problem was especially with the Sabbatean-Frankist central bankers (Rothschilds), the usurers with their Talmud, Cabala and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, who financed their bastard familymember Adolf Rothschild Hitler and his Holocaust. You can learn about the real Ezra Pound in his only authorized biography, This Difficult Individual, by Eustace Mullins. Aude sapere.

[1776Matthew]

@SpokenVerse Whoa, whoa, whoa... I did NOT post a video about "the final solution to the black problem". You are taking that statement out of context. You need to watch the whole clip. That statement is meant to illustrate the hypocrisy and the double-standards of certain political realities we are facing.

Anyway, I'll respect your wishes with regard to the topics commented on in this venue. No need for a "preemptive strike".

[menkbabe1]

Thank you for letting me know. You read very well.