‘In a Station of the Metro’ by Ezra Pound is an incredibly short, but incredibly effective, representation of the Imagistic movement in poetry.
This is basically what a haiku would look like rendered into English.
The poem is also a perfect example of the three ways one can “charge language with meaning” and thus create “great language” according to Pound:
- Phanopoeia
- Melopoeia
- Logopoeia
Ezra Pound’s ‘In a Station of the Metro’ 3-Minute Poem Analysis
Let me know what you think of Pound’s poem.
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:Petals on a wet, black bough.