Ezra Pound

Trae Judd
February 21, 1996
period 3
' An intellectual hatred is the worst' (Bartlett's 80). This sentiment expressed by Yeats sums up Ezra Pound's character. While he lives on as a gifted poet and historian, people will always remember Pound for his strong anti-Semitism. These ideas stained his writing and his character. Ezra Pound wrote many poems of questionable understanding. One moment he exhibited kindness, and the next he behaved as a seven-year-old writing poetry, words illegible and senseless.
Ezra Pound lived in a peaceful environment, but the fire of anti-Semitis…