pensamiento critico y practica poetica en donald davie - Universidad ...

influential notion of tbe dissociation of sensibility Es enly one version of Ihe
belief En a calamifeus Falí, an expulsion frem sorne historEcal Eden, thai seems
te have been an imaginative necessity as weB br Yeats and Pound, fer TE.
Hulme, and br Henry Adanis befere any of fhem. Fer Pound as a yeung man
ihe Falí came between cavalcani¡ and Peirarch, and he seems lo have
persuaded Hulme to agree with him; br Yeats u came about 1550; br Eliot,
sorne time beiween 1590 and 1650. Peunds position as ihe later develeped it,
however, was closer te Yeais’s ihan fo Ellois, br he and Yeals embraced a
cyclical view of historical change thai permilted ihem te conceive of such
calamities as having happened more iban once, at correspend¡ng siages ¡n
olber cultural cycles than thai of recerded hisfery in Wesiern Europe. (SEP,
170)
Dada la naturaleza personal del mito, la historia en The Cantos se
transforma de narración objetiva (épica) en discurso subjetivo (elegía).
Como vemos, en EP:PS Davie ha analizado extensamente las
implicaciones de la esculturalidad poética de Pound, dada por la
espacialización del texto. Como crítico, su ponderación de la esculturalidad de
The Cantos le lleva a desdecirse de algunas posiciones que había sostenido
con anterioridad. Así, en EP:PS hallamos alterizaciones. Si en AE afirmaba
que ‘when concrete images are crowded upon each other, they bose their
concreteness... The things will not stand still, but fluctuate and swim like weeds in a
stream” (AE, 127), ahora escribe que “what began as random associations are
seen to organize themselves into constellations ever more taut and brilliant,
and ultimately into the forma” (SEP, 191-192). En esta línea, Davie llega a
alabar la técnica simbolista de composición, diciendo que “this continual taking
up of certain thematic references, each time seen differently because each time
in a new context, is one of the peculiar glories of the Cantos, and of the poetic
method they exemplify” (SEP, 188).
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