...Station of the Metro" is all verbless, atemporal detail, devoid of both action and a lyric speaker: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. The poem's easy binary makes a twinned pairing, in a pseudo-couplet, of humanity and nature and of...

...upon my sleeve for dawes to peck at" (Othello, I, i, 64). Or the haunting metaphor in Ezra Pound's "In A Station of the Metro": The apparition of these faces in a crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Analogy helps liven boring prose and conversation. It can better...

...the faces in this field could be Korean or American. This closing image echoes Pound's most famous Imagist poem: In a Station of the Metro The apparition...these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough ("In a Station of the Metro," [1913], 1286). Pound presents us with an "apparition," and this image...

...Wallace Stevens CEE Cummings D. Carl Sandburg E. Thomas Stearns Eliot t IV. Identify the fragments. In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Questions: 1) Who is the author of this short poem? 2) What two images are juxtaposed, or placed next...

...work, and he described it as an attempt to capture a balance of subjectivity and objectivity ( 1^467) . In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. This poem resembles haiku because of the juxtaposition of two unlike images (faces, petals) and the...

...630) — with which compare, Poikilottmm' athanat' Aphwdita — every word of Sappho's a surprise, or IN A STATION OF THE METRO The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. (P, 109) — the second image not only unforeseeable, but a new way to view the first one. Hay new...

...of Gaudier- Brzeska, 86-87) This is the poem Pound was able to write after he found the "equation." In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. (Personae, 109) That's it. Just a title and two lines of free verse. It is the perfect Imagist poem,...

...readings. into relation, rather than drawing attention to any failure to connect. Consider Ezra Pound's 'In a Station of the Metro' The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.9' Here we are given the image in the second line and a point of relation (which also includes...

...systems. A first and very famous example is Ezra Pound's two-line poem from 1926, "On a Station in the Metro": The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. The poem is famous for its compellingly brief parallel between two otherwise very different images....

...that were kinds of ideogram. The best-known example is 'In a Station of the Metro' written in 1911: The apparition of these faces in the crowd : Petals on a wet, black bough Pound went into some detail concerning the composition of this poem in an influential article called 'Vorticism'....