In_a_Station_of_the_Metro

In a Station of the Metro The Explication of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” Ezra Pound’s words portray a moment frozen in time. The poem, “In a Station of the Metro,” is a poem of imagery. Through imagery, Pound imbues his vision and thoughts of his surroundings while on a subway train. Pound’s title, “In a Station of the Metro,” sets the stage to allow the reader to visualize a “… dark, cold, wet…”(p657) subway station. Pound uses these words to set the ambiance. He puts the reader at the station watching “the apparition of these faces in the crowd”(1). The word “apparition” takes away the identity of the peoples’ faces as what seems like a train speeding by and blurring the faces of the awaiting passengers. Yet Pound does allow the reader to notice the faces that he sees by giving a select few form, hence, “Petals on a wet, black bough”(2). The author uses “Petals” to relate to the faces that he notices in the amorphous crowd from the “bough” station, pound, faces, black, subway, poem, reader, pound’s, petals, words, train, sees, metro, imagery, word, wet, surroundings, sun, seems, relates, places, perspective, indicative, ezra, bough, beauty, apparition, allow, yet, writes, whole, while, watching