Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2021
Abstract
The paper focuses on the interpretation of Pound's cantos XVII, XXI and XXXIX, which reveal peculiar spirituality connected with the poet's vision of the Eleusian mysteries articulated with the topics taken especially from the Odyssey book XI. The epiphany of a goddess is at the heart of it, revealing the relationship between the orgiastic sexuality and the similarly orgiastic mortality.
The other side of such experience is an Ulyssean nostos, the return to the world of the ordinary human experience, providing spiritual and mental bracing. It is conspicuously missing in the Cantos, nevertheless it is an obviously necessary condition for giving an account of such kind of experience.