Ezra Pound 4

An excerpt from Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section I, read by the poet. "The Cantos," Pound's epic, opens with Odysseus and his crew setting sail for the Land of the Dead.

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Film & Animation

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• Ezra
• Pound
• Poetry
• Art
• Cantos
• Odyssey
• Journey
• Voyage

[richardyingren]

I wish this was longer, far too brief. Xiexie all the same.

[kronos77]

An amazing voice he had.

[breeeegs]

Well played soldier, well played

[soulstice99]

And then went down to the ship,

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and

We set up mast and sail on that swart ship,

Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also

Heavy with weeping, and winds from sternward

Bore us out onward with bellying canvas,

Circe's this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.

[ColdChicago]

oh its war war war

let the goddess sing us to glorious death

read on all you school boys

marching in uniforms well kept in a land called literatue

there we'll fight

and there' we'll die

oh glory be to ezra,

sing him home

and let him Lie

[fataloptimist]

I'm actually writing my thesis on The Cantos! This was inspiring! Thanks!