Arides
The bashful Arides
Has married an ugly wife,
He was bored with his manner of life,
Indifferent and discouraged he thought he might as
Well do this as anything else.
Saying within his heart,’I am no use to myself,
'Let her, if she wants me, take me.'
Pound could have been thinking when he
wrote “Arides”. Whatever mistakes a person
makes their is no reason that they can not
persevere with the help of a loving
family.Arides was not blessed with that gift like
most people. Those who are truly do not
realize it,when Ezra Pound wrote “Arides” he
wanted his audience to recognize that their
family is a gift. This is something that some
people do not recognize until they are gone.
Joseph
Boehmer
He went to his doom.
-Ezra Pound
Everybody has done something that they regret. It is part
of human nature to make mistakes. This idea is the main
theme for Ezra Pound’s “Arides” . The main character
Arides is a symbol for the author Ezra Pound where even
though Pound was one of the more successful poets of
the Modernist period he could have secretly been
unhappy with his life. Possibly so unhappy that he had
thoughts of suicide or going to “his doom”.The “ugly wife”
was a symbol of what Pound thought was his failure as a
poet or as a person. “I am no use to myself.’’ In these
words Pound conveys to his audience,that Arides
believes he is useless or inferior, “she” could be his
deceased mother or a deceased former lover.
Furthermore, “If she wants me, take me” means that if
this person wants to see Arides again they should go and
take him to heaven. This can also be taken to mean if
Arides wants to see this person again he can take that
matter into his own hands which is what the final line,
“He went to his doom”, means. Arides unsucce