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Jan 7, 2020 · 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) This Poem Appears In. Read Issue. More About This Poem. Poems & Poets.
‘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 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. 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" 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.
Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic...
In A Station of the Metro. Ezra Pound. Track 73 on Emily Dickinson. The most famous poem (1913) from the early twentieth-century movement known as Imagism. According to Pound, it was...
“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.”
Feb 21, 2014 · "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. This talk was given by Mark Doty at the Academy of American Poets' Online Poetry Classroom Summer Institute.
“In a Station of the Metro” is a short poem that the American poet Ezra Pound first published in 1913. Clocking in at just fourteen words, the poem juxtaposes faces in a crowd with petals on a wet branch.
