Pounderin jowl

• ponder: weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care
• pounder: a person or thing that pounds, pulverizes, or beats.
• jowl: the jaw, especially the lower jaw.
• howl
• Ezra Pound: (1885 – 1972) an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement who was one of Joyce's most important champions, arranging for the first (serialized) publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and introducing Joyce to his patroness Harriet Shaw Weaver (though he was an ardent critic of Finnegans Wake).
  • He translated poems from Chinese.