Doria
Doria - context Summary
From the Collection Personae
Placed in Pound's Personae collection, the short poem casts a speaker requesting to be remembered not through fleeting beauty but in austere, elemental images—wind, cliffs, gray waters—and mythic afterlife motifs. The context ties the poem to Pound's interest in dramatic voices and classical allusion: a persona speaks of enduring moods and soft divine remembrance rather than transient gaiety, framing memory as grave and elemental.
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