with the assurance that they will be able to approach it exactly
as they approached the preceding. They do not like that constant
readjustment which the following of Mr. Pound's work demands.
Thus has "Lustra" been a disappointment to some; though it
manifests no falling off in technique, and no impoverishment
of feeling. Some of the poems (including several of the
"Contemporanea") are a more direct statement of views than
Pound's verse had ever given before. Of these poems, M. Jean de
Bosschere writes:

Everywhere his poems incite man to exist, to profess a
becoming egotism, without which there can be no real
altruism.

I beseech you enter your life.
I beseech you learn to say "I"
When I question you.
For you are no part, but a whole;
No portion, but a being.

... One must be capable of reacting to stimuli for a moment,
as a real, live person, even in face of as much of one's own
powers as are arrayed against one;... The virile complaint,
the revolt of the poet, all which shows his emotion,--that
is poetry.

Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.