ENGL 40761 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: The Cantos, Ernest Fenollosa, Super Bowl Xxxi
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*a model that pound uses in his cantos is the ideogrammic method, or written ideas. *the cantos were formed through his understanding of chinese characters (ideograms), which combine meaning with visual description. * pound loved that the ideograms gave a concrete notion to language. *ernest fenollosa, an art critic, was very interested in japanese translations of chinese texts. He converted to buddhism, and was sent back to the u. s. to convert people to. * pound wished to present pictures of complex ideas, in which the picture itself would portray a message far better than a text alone. *the cantos are ideograms in pound"s sense, or are expanded collages around complex ideas . The cantos are an effective collage, which allow our minds to grasp a complex thought. * written in a short-hand way that allows one to grasp the message, without being bogged down by details.
