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Originally Posted by Michael Ferris
Pound did wind up having a great ear, but dear Lord, his diction is fusty in that piece! But he is comprehensible and I don’t argue with the sentiments. Sack-stains half thy screed discloses, / Th' other half doth hold the morn is quite marvelous, despite being fusty.
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Completely agree that he's fusty there, as he is pretty unrelentingly in the early stuff. I just think that's the one piece where he harnessed it well. Would the poem be better if he had done the same thing without the fustiness? Probably. But it's still a solid poem.
(Not that you're necessarily disagreeing)