[New-Poetry] Ondaatje and the soul of the poet

[Anny Ballardini]

The way I see it, and as far as I know, I can talk of both Williams and
Eliot with reference to Pound, Williams is opposed to Pound - at least that
is the way he proudly shaped himself, and Eliot would have been no one
without Pound. We are facing again two sides of the same coin, still two
very distinct sides.
Also, in the case of Eliot, one should trace his own outline, still
different from Pound by whom he was created.

I might not be clear, I am full of analgesics - just back from the dentist.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Linda Sue Grimes
<suelin6787 at charter.net>wrote:

>  I would like to hear Ondaatje's examples with explanations for this
> difference.  My first reaction is yes Eliot certainly does that, but then I
> don't quite get how Williams "goes into it and kind of discovers it."
>
> I think of Eliot's patient etherized upon a table describing evening, and
> think that is certainly a mindset, the mindset of Prufrock, at least.  But
> then the red wheelbarrow that so much depends upon and green glass between
> the hospital walls and "Honeysuckle!  And now / there comes the buzzing of
> a bee!"--don't they also reflect a mindset?  How is it that Williams
> entered the landscape but Eliot did not?
>
> respectfully,
> lsg
>
>
>
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> *From:* Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> *To:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:20 PM
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> This statement by Ondaatje has much more in it than what it actually says.
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:29 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/478592.html
>>
>> Ondaatje has written five novels. The most recent was "Divisadero,"
>> published in 2007. He has written 13 books of poetry.
>>
>> "I think the way that someone like [poet] William Carlos Williams writes
>> about place and landscape is more believable to me than the way T.S. Elliot
>> writes. Eliot imposes his mind-set on that landscape, and Williams goes into
>> it and kind of discovers [it] . . . " Ondaatje said.
>>
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