I just finished a collection of Pound's poetry, and I have come to the realization that there will not be a poet of the same magnitude since our academic institutions have completely derailed. To save art, we need to change University standards.
If you disagree with me, please explain why I am wrong. I would like to feel differently, since this realization makes me feel uneasy.
>>8065125
A poet doesn't have to be educated in an academic institution, I'm not sure how that's at all relevant.
>>8065128
but someone as great as Pound had a great education. it's very relevant, since the thread is about him and poets alike.
If you are right, who is a modern poet with no formal education that's of a similar caliber?
I'm saying, I want to sustain his spirit and lineage of poetry, but it's not possible if nobody cares or standards continue to be low.
We just have to find some bright /pol/ users and lock them in a steel box for a few years. Humans are like olives, they give their best when they are crushed.
>>8065125
I haven't thought a lot about this. But I do know that Djvorak would agree with you.
what's so great about him
>>8065134
Well, you seem to care, so why not do it yourself? And self-teaching can be a great education, you're still learning from geniuses, just not in person.
Did you read the Cantos and think that's what any poem by the average college-graduate at the time would be able to write? He learned well beyond the standards of university, and people can and do continue to do so.
ezra pound has a great art of poetry interview with the Paris review where he says he resolved to know more about poetry than any other man by age 30 or something
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why the fuck would you think artificially changing university procedure would bring high modernism back
