American Modernism N.pptVIP

American Modernism(1914-1945) In a Station of the Metro In a Station of the Metroby Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Analysis of In a Station of the Metro In a Station of the Metro is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris’s subway station in which the faces turned variously toward light and darkness. Although it has only 2 lines and 14 words in the whole poem, the poet provides us with a vivid picture with four images—apparition, faces, petals and bough. The poet uses many figures of speech, such as pun, metaphor