Canto XLV Themes

When your main beef with the modern world is people's obsession with money, you're bound to get into issues of greed. And Pound does just that in Canto XLV. He never uses the word greed explicitly,...

Now making money without producing anything for other people is one thing for Pound, but it's a completely other thing if moneylending and finance actually prevent people from producing something....

Pound doesn't really bring up sex until the final few lines of Canto XLV. But these lines are some of the most powerful ones in the entire poem. For the most part, Pound is all about how usura and...

Pound might not have been a straight-up Christian, but Canto XLV sounds like it could have come out of the harshest books of the Bible (Leviticus, maybe?). In this poem, Pound specifically uses the...