Iambus
confusingly refer/
red to as “iambic poetry”
not restricted to meter
origins scholars traced to cults
Demeter &
Dionysus genre insulting obscene
“blame
poetry” For Alexandria
intended to entertain,
and
elegy even though
lacking
decorum both Archilochus & Hipponax
early exponents
Callimachus composed
against
scholars
which tickled
Catullus, who
popularized
Hipponax Horace, on other hand
imitation of
Archilochus invectives
revenge and
denunciation
//
“iambos” denoted
content
secondarily metrical
Archilochus
criticized for being “too iambic” “too metrical”
cult of Demeter festivals featured Homeric abuse
commemorate slave Iambe’s bawdy
jests
so abusive roused grieving
goddess
forgets sorrows
laughs instead.
“Normality reinforced experiencing opposite.”
common element blame
dangerous
unsuitable
behaviors. addressed to audience
under threat
cast in
role of friends
//
ranges from humorous
ribbing to merciless attacks
regarded
as lower than
lyric because
nearest to speech
because
undignified
//
a “riotous affair”
phallic rites).
//
the
drinking symposium the cult festival
occasions. role iambic played in
society. was
complex found voice during
change and dissent, entitled or empowered
preach and condemn.
Pindar condemned Archilochus
“sharp-tongued” and
“grown fat , ” yet
still found sympathetic
audiences
//
Callimachus following example of Hipponax
curse poetry versus
farewell poetry
a politic weapon
by Cato the Elder
account by Plutarch:
//
heaped much
abuse
upon Scipio
bitter tone of Archilochus
//
Post-punk Catullus satirical epigram
with Hipponax’s pungent
invective
the iambic poet bullies others yet victim too
meant
to appear
spontaneous led to “mixed bag”
Horace
alerting
citizens of
a doomed republic:
//
where are you careening to?
//
nature changed from epoch to another
//
casts off ill-omened
stinking
pulverize
/
turn the sea
loom rends
trembling
/
appear
sinks
carrying
winning sailed
on
/
sweating
change hue to a pale green,
/
wailing
prayers ignored
resounding with the wet
breaks apart
ship!
/
scattered
Lies at the pleasure
sacrifices lusty goat
//
dexterous
display of
patterns.
//
The papyrus
tattered portions,
incomplete
identification
//
spews out seaweed.
//
the surf, the seaweed,
the dog, the
man’s frozen body, outlines
than they would appear
--
Ez/Ra Pound
in London
“ before I die the greatest poems
loud brash
“ I happen to be genius and deserve .”
//
…east of Hailey Idaho
5 years yet born
…Big Whiskey Wyoming
, Unforgiven’s 1880
…Will Munny Spencer barrel at Little Bill’s face supine,
“Deserve’s…got nothin’ to do with it.”
//
arrived 14 August 1908.
knew nobody only fifteen dollars , no pounds
//
popular press agreeably startled
serious critics seldom
impressed. Unfazed,
Pounded on promote
by bizarre means.
“ trousers made of green billiard-cloth, a
pink
coat, a blue shirt, a tie
painted Japanese ,
immense sombrero flaming beard cut to exclamation
single, large blue-earring.”
“ kind but
blustering adolescent. Almost ‘arrested’
development.” Punch parodied “palpitating works”
“the new Montana poet, Mr.
Ezekiel Ton.” took it as
compliment wrote home,
“London offered ultimate laurel
taken cognizance .”
under influence
altered stilted language to
spoken idiom.
“austere, direct, free
from slither…
--
Of “In
a Station of the Metro”
the best locksmith begins a bit flat: place, underground,
public transport simple as pedestrian directions.
Only more to be
measured than what is
called upon
Confucius translates
Homer.
//
curt and irascible, incessant talker,
“ loose in a museum.”
structure of year prior to great war
1913 edition of Lustra. others in this node
thinking for a long
time.
//
Paris sub system
first true Imagist
poem was effect felt when “ suddenly a beautiful face,
then another another, and then beautiful child’s then
beautiful woman” getting off a train
//
turned radically on its
colon overlay
two images. double helix
snakes copulating hokku couplet
//
“ I tried all that day to find words
I could not find any
words
worthy, as that sudden e/motion.
still trying,
found, suddenly, I do not mean that I found words,
there came an
equation … not in speech , in little
splotches of colour. — a ‘pattern’
a language in color
I realized quite
vividly
if I
had the energy to get
paints and brushes and keep at it,
a new school ‘non-representative’
would speak only in
arrangements
gone into paint
…
“ one idea set on top of another
…
“ meaningless unless drifted into a certain
vein of thought .
trying to record
instant when a
thing transforms
darts inward and subjective
. worthy of .”
//
vision of the blossom
oriental in nature
decorative form of arranging,
of linear construction,
rhythm, color
. vase, stems, leaves , branches, as well
based
on three main
lines heaven, earth, humanity
poem petals are
people stationed/upon a stem
screaming
“Jug Jug” into dirty
ears
//
underground horizontal and blackened
branch side by
side faces in the windows
ancient haikus
“Flowers Faded” “Blossoms Left Behind”
a simple montage one concrete image
the modern meter of the
metro moves
rhythmic into
organic space
there are no verbs
how they echo.
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