Ezra Pound

Causa

Causa - meaning Summary

Private Compassion Made Public

The speaker offers a brief, direct statement of allegiance to four unnamed people while acknowledging a wider audience. The poem contrasts intimate concern with public indifference: the speaker wants to honor or defend these individuals, yet knows the world will not recognize them. It compresses private loyalty, sorrow, and the sense of being misunderstood into a few spare lines, highlighting the gap between personal feeling and communal awareness.

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I join these words for four people, Some others may overhear them, O world, I am sorry for you, You do not know these four people.

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