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Ezra Pound’s Global Poetics

2019· article· en· W3003265873 on OpenAlexaff
Ira Nadel

Bibliographic record

VenueLiterature of the Americas · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoeticsLiteraturePoetryPound (networking)CosmopolitanismArtRomanceWorld literatureHistoryPoliticsLaw

Abstract

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This essay will explore the reasons for the international appeal of Ezra Pound and his importance in the creation of "Global Poetics."What, in his writing, especially his poetry, makes him a transnational figure not only translated into Russian, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Greek, but appealing to writers in a variety of cultures?What makes his work influential for other, often foreign writers, and what can we as readers identify as his international style?How, in short, does he articulate a global poetics?Throughout his work, beginning with The Spirit of Romance (1910), Pound was a comparatist but his ideas and examples constantly absorb multiple poetics and poetic forms, whether Troubadour poets, Renaissance Italian writers or Confucius.He is our first global poet, translingual, translational and transnational which this essay will demonstrate through his use of global history, languages and imagery.The roots of Pound's global poetics may be in his cultural cosmopolitanism incorporating imagery, content and form from other literatures into his writing.He develops a transcultural vision that valorizes the dislocation and displacement of voices, as much sources and texts.Three texts that highlight this practice are Cathay, essay "The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry, and Guide to Kulchur".Pound, I shall argue, not only introduces global poetics but a new vocabulary for Global Modernism.In his prose and poetry, borders, boundaries and separations disappear which force us as readers to become transnational and even translocational responders to his texts.In his "A Draft of Three Cantos" (1917), Pound parallels Confucius with Dante.The effort to link the two in terms of content and form is an early expression of the global poetics elaborated more fully in The Cantos which will be at the center of this discussion.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.011
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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