Exactly how steamy is this poem?
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When it comes to sex, this poem is as dry as the "dead speech" given off by the people Pound dislikes so much. In fact, you can basically tell that this poem is negative because there's not a trace of sex in it. If there were sex, that would be a sign that Pound felt some sense of hope for beauty coming back to the modern world. But there's really none at all, just a "dryness calling for death" (75). So in conclusion: no sex + no beauty = one sad Ezra.