It comes as quite a shock to me at this very moment in time I have come to the conclusion, once again in my life, that I actually do quite enjoy studying English Literature, and that my degree is going to be worthwhile, and will, hopefully, hold some relevance to my life.
Frankly, Shakespeare has annoyed me today, I don't know why... I usually love the man, he is epic. But he annoyed me today and thus I decided I didn't want a degree anymore. Obviously that's just impetuous and quite stupid.
Anyway, I'm over that now.
I think that it is down to Ezra Pound. I've always understood that he is an important figure in modernism, moreover he is an important figure in literature, but I have never quite understood why? I've never "got" his poetry. His philosophy and outlook on literature is really quite beautiful and makes complete sense to me, but his poetry had never struck the same nerve. For the first time ever, after first reading "In a Station of the Metro" some four years ago, I finally "got" it. Not "got" in the sense of understood what it means or what he is saying, but in the sense that the beauty of the lines, that the ideal behind the poem finally hit me. And without a doubt it has instantly found a place up there with "Prufrock" as a joint favourite.
But, whilst Pound made me want my degree again, another writer reversed the feeling once more. Purely because when reading his book I came to the conclusion that I could write a better book that would prove every point he made wrong, because fundamentally his arguments were all flawed and wrong. But that is my delusions of grandeur, I probably couldn't do that - I'd have a good go though.
Also, today I argued with a man on twitter that I don't know because he said that poetry about poetry was bad, apparently it's old, been done too many times and by better people than me. Well, yeah that's all very true, but I did it anyway and I hope deep down within me that it really annoys him. Anyway, I won the twitter war because he didn't reply to my last tweet.
All in all I have had a very literary day, supplemented with the wonderful music of Miles Kane and Laura Marling, really need to see Laura Marling at some point.
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