Ezra Pound: The Gaze of a Poet
Painting by Sandra Longmore
This portrait is my artistic interpretation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972), the poet, critic, and thinker whose vision reshaped modern literature. His life and work remain both brilliant and controversial, but what continues to endure is the intensity of his voice, his influence, and the contradictions he embodied.
In this painting, I wanted to capture not just likeness, but essence. His green eyes hold a piercing focus, sharp with intellect yet touched by something more vulnerable. The strong lines of his profile and the play of light across his features suggest a man in constant dialogue—between thought and feeling, creation and critique, genius and flaw.
Every painting I create carries a glyph—a symbolic fingerprint of its soul.
For Ezra Pound: The Gaze of a Poet, the glyph is:
![Ezra Pound Glyph – Insert Image Here]
◻︎ Square → Structure and foundation
✒ Pen → The poet’s voice and creative expression
Δ Triangle → The balance of art, intellect, and contradiction
∞ Infinity → The lasting influence of his work
P-3 → Pound as poet, critic, and visionary
This glyph seals the portrait’s energy and distills his essence into a code: the architect of form, the wielder of words, and the enduring paradox of a poet whose gaze still reaches us across time.
