In a Station of the Metro (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Beauty, England or English people, Subways, London, Great Britain, Face or faces
The short poem “In a Station of the Metro” is an example of Pound's artistic theory of Imagism, which he advocated for a brief while in his career and which had a lasting impact on his writing and modern poetry. During his time in London, just before World War I, Pound developed a theory of poetry, which he termed Imagism, that stripped away the rhetorical excesses and vagueness that he believed obscured so much of contemporary poetry. In their places he advocated precise, careful presentation of specific images accurately rendered. Although Pound would later move beyond this...
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