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Pound is addressing Walt Whitman as a son might address a father. This is a rather competetive relationship he has with the ancestors. It is much like that in literature as well as in life. Tthis generation looks back on the previous generation as a bunch of old fogies, guys who should just die. They look to their grandfathers, the earlier times, and maybe having a better relationship with them. As many of us have better relationships with our grandparents than our parents.
He does not like Whitman's expansive style and detail. Nevertheless, Pound will have to deal with him. Pound appreciated a more modern style. Yet his subject matter was quit often older and reached back to Greek times and often the French and Italians too. Whitman was creating new traditions for America and her writers while Pound was writing in the established American traditions. He searched for commerce between all the great varieties and styles. Whitman "broke the new wood" and established a foundation to guide those after him, which allowed Pound to bring these other styles into what was American poetry, essentially carving the wood and becoming a more refined poet. This is all oedipal in its fashions. Whitman killed off his "fathers" to create American poetry. His "son" grew up till kill him but he has a relationship with his grandfather. Pound decided that he and Whitman needed some sort of relationship between them, a "commerce."
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