Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

How does Ezra Pound use imagery in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?

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Imagery really depends on the stanza. Consider the second stanza, The second section moves away from the subject of Pound himself and attempts to describe the artistic scene in London in the early 1900s. "The age demanded," Pound tells us, merely images; the age will settle for "mendacities" (lies) rather than the "classics in paraphrase" (this reference is to the hostility that greeted Pound's loose translation of Sextus Propertius's Latin lyric poems). Many art lovers in London in the 1910s were interested in art that was outwardly attractive but not deeply beautiful, immediately pleasing but not enduringly rewarding.