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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound 's In a Station of the Metro Your Name Your Class June 16 , 2009 Ezra Pounds ' In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound first published this poem in 1913 , at a time when of poetry were trying to break from the traditional pentameters associated with their craft . This piece is an excellent example of Imagism , in which poets , instead of describing an image in detail , tried to use a minimal amount of words , and evoke an image by use of a well-written phrase Pound uses haiku
style of poetry in this piece which contains only 14 words- a stark contrast to the 20-30 lines from previous era of Victorianism . Pound once explained that he did not wish the heart of the poem to be in the first or second line- but to be the thought process that connects them . While this is a concept used in Imagism , it is more like the latter form he embraced- Vorticism . This categorization comes from the endeavor of the author to treat the poem as a piece of graphic art
Upon examination of the poem itself , it is interesting to note that no verbs are used in the poem , yet it conveys a sense of movement . His choice of the word apparition ' automatically makes the reader conjure images of mysticism and spirits , thus he begins his contrasts between the real and the unreal the beautiful and the ugly the mundane and the exotic
His contrast of nature versus man-made and...
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