Plutarch's Eleusinian Rites (V)

Notes

A complicated graph over a long Canto with no regions. It would be useful to develop a way of annotating the graph to the Canto, as has been done with regions.

In terms of Kay Davis’s Fugal Eleusinian Rites, this Canto might count as some sort of katabasis (Davis refers to the descent part of Eleusis as the nekuia. While Odysseus does perform a nekuia in Canto I, it is the summoning of spirits, not his descent into Hades (katabasis). Nekuia is a pagan experience akin to the trobar finding his/her song). I have always read this Canto as Pound struggling to read the classics while domestic life goes on around him, distracting him, dividing his mind in two. Both Pound’s wife and son are painted in this Canto. For those who wonder where the poet resides in The Cantos (pre the Pisan), this is a good place to start, and can be followed by a brief run up to Canto XX which can be stopped on.
   There is a similarity to Canto IV, a repeat even, in the poet / character’s struggles to get back to a time prior. There is a double repeat: one repeat belongs to the struggle itself, the other belongs to c.IV’s character / c.V’s character. Someone who knows more about Cantos V and VI and VII might like to make a suggestion on whether Davis/Pound’s Fugal E.R. has any place around here.