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In a Station of the Metro The River-Merchant’s Wife: a letter A Pact In a Station of the Metro * * Imagism Definition It is an influential literary movement that took place in Europe and America from about 1910 to 1920. The imagist poet creates a single sharp image that evokes an emotional response in the reader. Imagism was in a reaction to the “bad habits” of the 19th century poets who were too explicit [?k‘spl?s?t](明确的) in their commentary and too repetitious [rep?’t???s](重复的) in their subjects, patterns, and meters. Direct treatment of the thing, whether subjective or objective To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. III. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome. Pound’s Tenets(原则) of Imagist Poetry Imagism in English Poems Analysis Theme: This poem is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris subway station or a description of a moment of sudden emotion at seeing beautiful faces in a Metro in Paris. He sees the faces, turned variously toward light and darkness, like flower petals which are half absorbed by, half resisting, the wet, dark texture of a bough. Image: This poem is probably the most famous of all imagist poems. In two lines it combines a sharp visual image of two juxtaposed [,d??kst?p??z] images （意象叠加） “Petals on a wet， black bough” with an implied meaning. The faces in the dim light of the Metro suggest both the impersonality and haste of city life and the greater transience(短暂，无常) of human life itself. Pound made a comparison between face and petal. Flower “petal on a wet ,black bough” serves as the most concise ,direct and definite metaphor for the “faces in the crowd”. Petal are beautiful , but they exist very short time, so do the faces. Here Pound deplore that in modern city beauty vanishes quickly. The word apparition has a two-fold meaning: Firstly, it means a visible appearance of something real.