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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".
Nguyễn Quốc Chánh (born 1958) is a Vietnamese poet. [1] He was born in Bạc Liêu, and now lives in Ho Chi Minh City.He is the author of four collections of poems, Night of the Rising Sun (Đêm mặt trời mọc 1990), Inanimate Weather (Khí hậu đồ vật 1997), the e-book Coded Personal Info (Của căn cước ẩn dụ 2001) and the samizdat Hey, I'm Here (Ê, tao đây 2005).
The poem describes four people stuck at traffic lights in downtown San Francisco - two are garbage collectors and two are an elegant couple in a Mercedes. The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'.
Station Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by ...
The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
The poem has six stanzas of four lines each, featuring slant rhyme. [2] The regularity of the four-line stanzas, according to Linda Wagner-Martin, serves to suggest "a grim insistence". [2] The poem's literary allusions include references to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. [3]
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filling Station magazine logo. filling Station is an experimental literary magazine published in Calgary, Alberta, founded in 1993. filling Station publishes three issues per year filled with innovative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews, and visual art.