Ladies
Ladies - meaning Summary
Shifting Faces of Desire
Pound presents brief portraits of different women and the speaker’s responses to them. Each section sketches a social type—an older woman seeking love, a devoted admirer resentful of rejection, a married beauty provoking mock lament, and a superficial beauty admired then dismissed. The tone shifts between irony and detached observation, exposing changing desire, social convention, and the gap between romantic rhetoric and lived reality.
Read Complete AnalysesAgathas Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days, All of whom she refused; And now she turns to me seeking love, And her hair also is turning. Young Lady I have fed your lar with poppies, I have adored you for three full years; And now you grumble because your dress does not fit And because I happen to say so. Lesbia Illa Memnon, Menmon, that lady Who used to walk about amongst us With such gracious uncertainty, Is now wedded To a British householder. Lugete, Veneres! Lugete, Cupidinesque ! Passing Flawless as Aphrodite, Thoroughly beautiful, Brainless, The faint odour of your patchouli, Faint, almost, as the lines of cruelty about your chin, Assails me, and concerns me almost as little.
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