Pound, Ezra. "In a Station of the Metro".

Summary and Analysis

(from Ruland & Bradbury)

- a brief poem of two lines: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough."

- the juxtaposition of seemingly very different images creates the impression of movement

- the poem is neither an explicit comparison (simile), nor an implicit comparison (metaphor)

- the two images are on equal level, equally important

- Pound claims to have expressed the moment when an outward and objective image is being changed into an inward and subjective image