In a Station of the Metro (first published in 1913) is a poem by Ezra Pound, and one of his best-known works. It is only 2 lines long:
- The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
- Petals on a wet, black bough.
Alternate versions were written by Pound that alter the grammatical relationships between the images in the poem - the poem is sometimes given with a semi-colon instead of a colon, or with neither. In one version a comma appeared after "Petals". In addition, the earliest published version had additional spacing to change the emphasis:
- The apparition of these faces in the crowd
- Petals on a wet, black bough.
Reference
- Ezra Pound, Vorticism, in The Fortnightly Review, Sept. 1, 1914
External link
- Extensive criticism page (including some of Pound's own comments)