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In a Station of the Metro" is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in April 1913 in the literary magazine Poetry. 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".
The poem is Pound’s variation on a Japanese haiku, a short poem typically rendered in English as 17 syllables divided into three lines, and employing highly evocative allusions. This poem has...
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) IN A STATION OF THE METRO. The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. ----------------------------------------------------------. Poetry 2:1, Chicago, April 1913. Original Text: Ezra Pound, "Contemporania," Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 2.1 (April 1913): 6.
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...
Haiku is a short Japanese poetic form, which developed about the middle of the seventeenth century. It consists of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
“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.
A great deal has been written about Ezra Pound's discovery of a structural technique, "a form of super-position,” in Japanese haiku and his first use of it in his ‘‘In a Station of the Metro."
