Tag Archives: Ezra Pound

Poems that Celebrate Long Marriages

Two poems to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, by Kunitz and Fanthorpe.

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Apparition of Unmasked Student Faces

The apparition of unmasked student faces brought to mind Ezra Pound’s famous poem.

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Skiddeth Bus and Sloppeth Us

Pound’s “Ancient Music” is the perfect poem for people feeling overwhelmed by snow.

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Love in the Time of Covid-19

For my 47th wedding anniversary, I reflect upon the concluding chapter of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” which seems only fitting.

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Blizzard Jonas: How the Wind Doth Ramm!

In “Ancient Music” Ezra Pound voices what all those who were hit hard by the weekend’s Jonas Blizzard were thinking–and often saying.

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Pound’s Description of a Long Marriage

With every passing year of my marriage, which hits 42 years today, my appreciation for Ezra Pound’s “River-Merchant’s Wife” grows.

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Giants Stand Tall, Defy Ezra Pound

The San Francisco Giants would make their 1960’s forebears proud.

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Austen’s Good Enough Match

First of all, a happy birthday to Jane Austen (thanks to my mother for pointing this out).  Jane would have been 234 today. My students have been bothered by the Marianne-Brandon marriage that concludes Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and I’m inclined to agree with them.  Kat Vander Wende reasonably pointed out that the sought-after […]

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