Dum Capitolium Scandet
Dum Capitolium Scandet - fact Summary
Included in Personae
A short, confident address from Ezra Pound to future poets, claiming influence and expressing a paternal pride in those who will carry his methods forward. The speaker celebrates clear, unrestrained voices shaped by his teaching and imagines his poetic progeny as both nameless and beloved. The poem asserts continuity of poetic truth and self-assured legacy, focused on mentorship, endurance, and the public clarity of verse.
Read Complete AnalysesHow many will come after me singing as well as I sing, none better; Telling the heart of their truth as I have taught them to tell it; Fruit of my seed, O my unnameable children. Know then that I loved you from afore-time, Clear speakers, naked in the sun, untrammelled.
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