/lit/ - Literature

>>3345167

As you wish. Here's Ezra Pound, right after finishing 'The Cattos'.

>>2578278

You're right, he's a wonderful poet. Also, I think that The Waste Land might be the last great poetic achievement in the English language - or, perhaps more accurately, the definitive poem of the last great literary age. Well, that and Ezra Pound's 'Cantos', but he was adding to that until the 1960s.

Picture related, Pound and his cats.

Would /lit/ mind constructively criticizing my poem?

I had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air,
Closed my inanimate lids to find it real,
As I knew it would be, the colourful spires
And painted roofs, the high snows glimpsed at the back,
All reversed in the quiet reflecting waters –
Not knowing then that Durer perceived it too.
Now I find that once more I have shrunk
To an interloper, robber of dead men's dream,
I had read in books that art is not easy
But no one warned that the mind repeats
In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still
The black swan of trespass on alien waters.