Imagism in the poem “In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound, analysis and interpretation.

“In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound, analysis and interpretation.

Imagism:(1912 and 1914)

Imagism was an early 20th-century movement born in England and America. It was a reaction to romantic and Victorian poetry. During modernism, the writers tried to experiment with writing so imagism was the product. 

Ezra Pound was the father of the imagist movement. The aim of the imagist movement was to create concrete images with words. Ezra Pound wrote an essay about imagist poetry  Few Don'ts by an Imagiste in this essay Ezra pound defined an image “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Ezra Pound was inspired by Japanese Haiku; therefore, in this essay, he said,  a poet should use fewer words and write concisely. He further said that if rhyming and meter are part of your work and they are compromising the quality of your work then you should avoid them. 


The poem “In a Station of the Metro" is the best example of imagist poetry.
BY EZRA POUND.


The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough.


Analysis:


This poem has less than twenty words. It completes in two lines, but the meaning of this poem) is deep and profound. 

The title of this poem is significant because it provides information about the setting. The writer is standing in a metro station and observing the crowd. 

In the first line, he says that the people in the station are ghost-like, which means that the people's faces look blurry because they are in hurry and moving in and out of the station very quickly so they are like ghosts appearing and disappearing. 

In the second line, he uses a simile and compares people with petals growing on a branch of a tree or plant. This conveys the idea that as the flowers are temporary, they die or their beauty disappears after some time. So, Ezra pound compares humans with flowers that just like flowers, humans also die and that life is very short, just like people in the station seem like ghosts; moving quickly, emotionless. 

Ezra Pound masterfully creates an image of life with just two stanzas. The first verse describes an observation while the second verse describes a recollection. 

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