Tenzone
Tenzone - meaning Summary
Art Resisting Public Acceptance
Pound presents a speaker uneasy about how his poems will be received, likening them to a frightened creature or outsider. He anticipates critical misunderstanding and rejects theatrical attempts to manufacture an audience. Instead he claims kinship with an autonomous, natural creative community, finding affirmation in remote, solitary spaces where his work echoes. The poem contrasts public acceptance with artistic independence and the value of authenticity over solicitation of approval.
Read Complete AnalysesWill people accept them? (i.e. these songs). As a timorous wench from a centaur (or a centurion), Already they flee, howling in terror. Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes? Their virgin stupidity is untemptable. I beg you, my friendly critics, Do not set about to procure me an audience. I mate with my free kind upon the crags; the hidden recesses Have heard the echo ofmy heels, in the cool light, in the darkness.
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