The Third Canto consists of the first person musings about the fall of “Myo Cid” (or “Mio Cid” – literally, My Lord; refers to the great Spanish hero of the Reconquista, El Cid).

Though writing about a Spaniard, the person musing is clearly in Italy. To me, this Canto reads as if it has moved away from the distancing mythologizing of the first two. I was struck by the strong impression that the “I” was truly Ezra Pound himself and that Myo Cid was a personal metaphor for some hero of his that suffered an undeserved fall from grace.