Un fragmento ficticio de Safo en Ezra Pound: ¿Pseudocita o monólogo dramático?

Abstract

Pound’s Papyrus poem is a fictitious fragment inspired in Sapho. Pound had a deep knowledge of Classical literatures and languages, and he was a great admirer of oriental literatures as well. For that reason, this concise poem can be analysed as a complex encounter between ancient, modern and oriental literatures from four points of view: the re-creation of an ancien poetic voice in which Pound wears the Sapho’s mask —we are referring to the Browning’s dramatic monologue—, the text as an invention or misquotation, the poem written in a pretended fragmentary state and finally, the possibility of reading it as an oriental poem.