D. S. Carne-Ross (quoted by Perloff, who is then quoted by Retallack)
"the thing, in Pound's best verse, [does] not point beyond itself"
but also "it doesn't point to us" (emphasis in original)
"The green tip that pushes through the earth in spring does not stand for or symbolize man's power of spiritual renewal ... The green thrust is itself the divine event ... Meant as literally as Pound means it, this is very hard to take. Not only does it offend agains the ways we have been taught to read literature, it is an offense against the great principle of inwardness or internalization that has put us at the center of things and laid waste to the visible world"