INTRODUCTION Throughout the early to mid-twentieth century, one poet stands out more than most others. His name is Ezra Westin Loomis Pound. From his introduction into the literary world and until his death, he seemed to create controversy, drama and chaos in both the literary and political worlds. T.S. Eliot declared that “Ezra Pound is more responsible for the twentieth-century revolution of poetry than is any other individual”. He is most likely one of the least read poets of his time, though his contribution to the revolution of poetry is greater than any other writer of the era. He was accredited to influencing and advancing many notable writers of the early twentieth century such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Frost., …show more content…
WHO WAS EZRA POUND Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on October 30th 1885 and died November 1st 1972. He was an iconic figure in the literary world. Born in Hailey, Idaho, he ended up in the University of Pennsylvania’s Liber Arts Program where he met Hilda Doolittle and William Carlos Williams, both of which would be part of his life thereafter. He later transferred to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, likely due to poor grades. He studied Provencal Dialect and Romance Languages. He travelled back and forth from Europe and taught for a short while at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, …show more content…
Pound has attained during his thirty-odd years of work on the Cantos increasing rhetorical skill, reaching new heights in the most recent sequences in which the spatial disposition of every word is functional. This structure Pound uses seems to capture my attention and is less boring than the typical structure. Even though Hugh Kenner attempts to explain it, I still feel as if Ezra Pound wrote that way just to get a rise out of his