This post just appeared on the pound list, and I couldn't resist fwd it
-- "lord of his work and master of utterance / who turneth his word in
its season and shapes it"
Carrol
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Subject: Re: mandala
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:35:32 -0500
From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Not gazing inward at the obscure harmonies of abstract geometric pattern
but outward at the variety in the flora and fauna and feeling the
connectedness of Art with all of Nature gave Pound a feeling of
wholeness
and well-being, the sense of heaven-on-earth:
Yet to walk with Mozart, Agassiz and Linnaeus
' neath overhanging air under sun-beat
Here take thy mind's space
And to this garden, Marcella, ever seeking by petal, by
leaf-vein
out of dark, and toward half-light
or:
...
And for one beautiful day there was peace.
Brancusi's bird
in the hollow of pine trunks
or when the snow was like sea foam
Twilit sky leaded with elm boughs.
Under the Rupe Tarpeia
weep out your jealousies--
To make a church
or an altar to Zagreus [ZAGREUS]
Son of Semele [SEMELE]
Without jealousy
like the double arch of a window
Or some great colonnade.
M'amour, m'amour
what do I love and
where are you?
That I lost my center
fighting the world.
The dreams clash
and are shattered--
and that I tried to make a paradiso
terrestre.
...
or a field or larks at Allegre,
"es laissa cader"
so high toward the sun and then falling,
"de joi sas alas"
to set here the roads of France.
Two mice and a moth my guides--
To have heard the farfalla gasping
as toward a bridge over worlds.
That the kings meet in their island,
where no food is after flight from the pole.
Milkweed the sustenance
as to enter arcanum.
To be men not destroyers.
Tim Romano
At 12:30 AM 1/10/03 +0500, Maia Chankseliani wrote:
>Can someone tell me exact examples of using Mandala archetype in ''The
>Cantos''?
