“There is one line, clearly drawn ”

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This paper explores the interplay of visuality and legibility in the work of H.D. Walter Benjamin’s analysis of the sign/mark dialectic is brought to bear on H.D.’s imagist poetics in relation to the Poundian ideal of objective clarity. H.D.’s images turn out to be dynamic compromise formations at the juncture between seeing and writing in which psychoanalytical interpretation originates. Unlike symptoms that might lend themselves to eventual elucidation, however, H.D.’s images un-read the poetic subject. They thus open up a specifically Modernist critical space of endlessly deferred readability.

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