| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 652 pages
...inspiration to convey the sense of movement, speed, or electric power. One only has to think of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" ("The apparition of these...faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough."). "Trams and dusty trees'" (the line that opens the song of one of the Wagnerian Thames daughters) in... | |
| Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - 2006 - 280 pages
...such modern procedures as juxtaposition and superposition. Pound's illustration is his own haiku-like 'In a Station of the Metro': The apparition of these...faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Here 'one idea is set on top of another' to produce the synthetic complex, also described as language's... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas J. Travisano - 2003 - 677 pages
...America. . . . The vital part of my message, taken from the sap and fibre of America, is the same as his." In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 1913 Pound's most famous imagist poem, "In a Station of the Metro," presents, to use Pound's own term,... | |
| Karen Roggenkamp - 2005 - 236 pages
...words, "an image ... is real because we know it directly."93 Consider, for instance, Pound's verse: "In a Station of the Metro" The apparition of these...faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Using spare and hard language, Pound and other Imagists provided snapshots of life, ripe with meaning... | |
| Gerald L. Bruns - 2005 - 176 pages
...furniture. 1 Poems for their part are said to be made of images, like Pound's perfectly rendered piece "In a Station of the Metro": The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.2 This is, strictly speaking, not a poem made of things but the record of an urban perception... | |
| Hans Hiebel - 2005 - 340 pages
...wurdest abgelegt.32 In Lustra erschien 1916 das wohl bekannteste „image" Pounds33: In a Station ofthe Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. In einer Station der Metro Das Erscheinen dieser Gesichter in der Menge: Blütenblätter auf einem... | |
| Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta - 2005 - 460 pages
...Pound and entitled 'In a Station of the Metro', the second - by Hulme - is entitled 'Above the Dock': The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Above the quiet dock in midnight, Tangled in the tall mast's corded height, Hangs the moon. What seemed... | |
| Lawrence Rainey - 2005 - 1217 pages
...RETURN The poem was first published in the English Review 11(3) (June In a Station of the Metro (1913) The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Salutation the Third (19 1 4) Let us deride the smugness of "The Times": GUFFAW! So much the gagged... | |
| Jennifer Ashton - 2006 - 148 pages
...metro station on a particular day, at a particular time, with particular feelings only he could have:20 "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: / Petals on a wet, black bough" (Gaudier-Brzeska, 89). In the space of a few sentences, Pound goes from "try[ing] all day to find words... | |
| 張錯 - 2005 - 360 pages
...龐德最著名的意象詩為( 地鐵站內) ( " InaStationoftheMetro , " @9@6 ) , 全詩只有兩行: The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet, black bough. 人群一張張魅影臉孔 濕渤枝幹上片片花瓣 詩中描述的正是一節節坐在地鐵車廂內乘客,... | |
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