A Station of the Metro

Today I would like to talk about the poem "A Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound. As most of us well know, Pound was one of the imagist writers. He followed the set rules of things such as stating things as they are and making it simple while still creating an image. This is by far my favorite thing about this poem. Pound took two lines and painted a picture in my head by using simple words and no confusion. The first line of this poem reads, "The apparition of these faces in the crowd" (line 1). This makes  me envision ghostly faces slowly becoming visable in a crowd. You can't yet distinguish the faces you just know they are there and are slowly becoming more visable. The second line reads "Petals on a wet, black bough" (line 2). Once again Pound makes me envision little petals on a huge black bough of a tree. I feel as though he is comparing these faint faces to the small petals on a bough. There is something missing, a dark side almost. I also like the assonance that Pound uses with crowd and bough. These are two completely differett words that actually do have somewhat of the same sound. I feel taht Pound did exactly what he set out to do which was to pain a picture in peoples minds.