Sub Mare
Sub Mare - meaning Summary
Included in Personae
Pound’s brief lyric explores a liminal, underwater sensibility where presence and absence blur. The speaker responds to another’s arrival by imagining a fabricated, autumnal scene that gives way to deeper, older marine life. Images of algæ and slow green surging suggest memory and myth beneath ordinary perception, linking ephemeral human feeling to pre-linguistic, quasi-religious natural forces.
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