Sea-Green Eyes
The expression "sea-green eyes" only comes up once in the poem, and it's in French ("Yeux Glaucques). But the fact that Pound returns to this image in the final line of the poem (topaz eyes) defini...
Dionysus
Pound's references to Dionysus are pretty much the main thing that distinguish him from a more starchy, puritan type like T.S. Eliot. While Eliot's "The Waste Land" might rant and rave about the lo...
Ulysses
Every time the character of Ulysses (protagonist of Homer's Odyssey) comes up in modernist literature, he's pretty much always a stand-in for a heroic man trying to find his way toward some symboli...
Tropical Island
With all the talk of World War I and a bunch of modern phonies, hearing about a nice "coral island" on lines 313-316 might strike us as a nice break from Pound's gloominess. But don't be fooled. Th...
Sagging Roof
In the tenth poem of "Mauberley" (lines 170-181), Pound describes the living conditions of the poor "stylist." Now we might think the word stylist refers to some superficial person who prefers styl...
Amber
So amber is hardened tree sap, and it's really, really good at preserving stuff. Throughout this poem, Pound looks for different images to convey art's power to preserve beauty over hundreds or eve...