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2/26/2013

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U K A S E

“Let the candidate . . .” trailing off

            “fill his mind . . .” cough

            “with the finest cadences . . . ” attend attend

            “he can discover / preferably in

            “a foreign language”    B  A  S  T  A!

                                    “so that the meaning of the words

                                                “may be less likely to divert his attention

                                                “from the movement . . .”

            music /  rhythm

                             in verse libre

                                                Herr Pound taught syllable-sound play  

SOUND VALUE

                                                                                                            (sound scrip)   

                                    & as Olson projected in verse

                                                            syllables STACK STRESS 

                                                                        Y  E  S !

                        & in phrase Anglais the self’s song-truths reckon

                                    prosodies of yore

                                                (yr Old English Seafarer here)

                        “. . . e.g. Saxon charms / Hebridean Folk Songs / the verse

                                    “of Dante / & the lyrics of Shakespeare . . .”

                                               

                                    syllables long & short        DURATION / D  u  r  a t i o n

                                                            stressed / UNstressed

                                                                        vowels / consonants

                                    & for Pound into England 

                                                arriving by a commodius vicus

                                                to v e r s e  i n  c r i s i s

                                    (one follows his storm through beaded curtains

                                                under saturated clouds against windows)          

                                                Aye / & for early P to fill the ear shd fill the eye.  

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