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Poet: Ezra Pound (Ezra Pound Art)
Poem: Salutation
Volume: Lustra
Year: Published/Written in 1916
Comment 1 of 1, added on November 16th, 2008 at 5:30 PM.
Ezra Pound addresses the old-time question of happiness in privileged and underprivileged classes. The "generation of thoroughly smug" refers to middle and upper classes of society who, by conventional means, are uptight, dull, and "smug", and in Pound's definition are "thoroughly uncomfortable", with life. Pound parallels the "thoroughly smug" with the "fishermen". The poem is about perseverence. "Fishermen" are poor, often uneducated, countryfolk. Pound parallels "fishermen" with struggling poets; both sects working hard trying to survive by their individual means.
Artur Isakov from United States
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Ezra Pound addresses the old-time question of happiness in privileged and underprivileged classes. The "generation of thoroughly smug" refers to middle and upper classes of society who, by conventional means, are uptight, dull, and "smug", and in Pound's definition are "thoroughly uncomfortable", with life. Pound parallels the "thoroughly smug" with the "fishermen". The poem is about perseverence. "Fishermen" are poor, often uneducated, countryfolk. Pound parallels "fishermen" with struggling poets; both sects working hard trying to survive by their individual means.
Artur Isakov from United States