Great Regulars: This poem has a good sense of rage

about it. I want to quote, though, a piece of advice from Ezra Pound that seems relevant: "Don't use such an expression as 'dim lands of peace'. It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol."

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: John Hartley Williams's poetry workshop

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This poem has a good sense of rage about it. I want to quote, though, a piece of advice from Ezra Pound that seems relevant: "Don't use such an expression as 'dim lands of peace'. It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol."

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: After words

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