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In a Station of the Metro. By Ezra Pound. The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. Source: Poetry (April 1913)
‘In a Station of the Metro’ by Ezra Pound is the quintessential Imagist poem and one of his best works. In just two lines, Pound paints an indelible image that encapsulates the essence of the Imagist movement.
"In a Station of the Metro" is a poem by American writer Ezra Pound, originally published in 1913. Pound's two-line poem is a famous example of "imagism," a poetic form spear-headed by Pound that focuses above all on relating clear images through precise, accessible language.
In a Station of the Metro" is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in April 1913 [1] in the literary magazine Poetry. [2] In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; he suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an "equation".
‘In a Station of the Metro’, written by Ezra Pound in 1913, is the Imagist poem par excellence. In just two lines, Pound distils the entire manifesto for Imagism into a vivid piece of poetry, what T. E. Hulme had earlier called ‘dry, hard, classical verse’. But what does the poem mean, precisely?
In a Station of the Metro. Ezra Pound. 1885 –. 1972. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. From Personae by Ezra Pound, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.
“In a Station of the Metro” captures a fleeting moment of perceptual intensity that Ezra Pound experienced at the Concorde station of the Paris Metro in 1912. When this poem first appeared, it provided a chief example of an experimental new form of poetry known as “Imagism.”
The most famous poem (1913) from the early twentieth-century movement known as Imagism. According to Pound, it was inspired by a moment he experienced while waiting for the subway in the Paris ...
Analysis (ai): Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" presents a brief yet striking image that evokes a sense of transience and fragmentation. The "apparition" of faces in a crowd is compared to "petals on a wet, black bough," juxtaposing the organic and the urban.
In a Station of the Metro. by Ezra Pound. →. information about this edition. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.