Ezra Pounds In a Station of the Metro :: Ezra Pound Station of the Metro Essays

Ezra Pounds In a Station of the vacuum tube Before this week, I had n incessantly read any poetry by Ezra Pound. I noniced immediately that many of the poetrys are very short. In a Station of the Metro, for example, is two lines. In the es sound out Imagism, the second govern of imagistes is said to be to use absolutely no word that did not contribute to the presentation. I think this rule helps explain why many of Pounds poems are so short. Obeying the second rule of imagistes will be unmanageableer the nightlong the poem is. This rule, however, does not seem to me a rule of imagistes al unrivalled, but of well-nigh poets from all eras. I dont think many poets could be found who would say that they try to use senseless words. Just because a poem is long-acting than a few lines doesnt mean the poet is being long-winded. I think the wide majority of poets would say that they only use necessary words in their poetry. Of course it could also be said that words that seem supe rfluous do actually contribute to the presentation. I have a hard time with letting Pound claim this rule as angiotensin-converting enzyme of the imagistes only. Besides its length, In a Station of the Metro was a poem I read with interest because it is on the syllabus as one of the poems to read carefully. I thought it strange that I was supposed to requital attention to this poem. Truly, it initially struck me as the kind of poem that I tried to write in elementary school. Not that I ever wrote anything interesting, but the shortness of the poem and the pairing of two very varied images was pretty much the basis of my poetry as a kid. I thought randomness made poems deep. The title of this poem is very main(prenominal) as it places the reader in the metro station. While titles of poems and books are incessantly important, this poem would be quite lost without its title. The title lets us get it on that the apparition of these faces in the crowd takes place in the metro s tation, not the stadium or the shopping mall or any former(a) crowded place. By placing the reader with the title, the poem lets the reader know that the first of all image of the poem, the faces in the crowd, is something that belongs to the location of the speaker.