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 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: mandala Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:35:32 -0500 From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine<[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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''?