In a Station of the Metro, Ezra Pound, Summary & Analysis

In a Station of the Metro, Ezra Pound, Summary & Analysis

In a Station of the Metro – The Poem The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Easy Meaning of the Poem In a metro station, the ghost like appearance, that is to say, dynamic and changing image (apparition) of the people's faces in the crowd looks like flower petals on main branch of the tree (bough) which is wet, suggesting, probably after rainfall. Short Analysis It is only a couplet. The poem consists of 14 words only. Verbless Poetry: The couplet is verbless. That is, there is no action word used. Subject without any action to perform creates a sense of static picture. The moment in time is captured in static image without action/verb. Feels like two captured images placed together somehow coordinating and speaking to each other. This is one of the features of the imagist poetry . Detailed Analysis The meaning is create…