Question

In the poem “in a station of the metro” what is so startling about the imagery that compares human faces in the subway to flower petals? what quality of urban life does the image evoke?
( what is the relationship between place and literature?)

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Answer 1

"In a Station of the Metro" (1913) by Ezra Pound creates an imagery that compares the human faces with the flower petals. Through the connecting image the poet links cycle of nature with the urban life. The movement of the human in the subway is linked with that of a tree that they are continuously moving, changing and growing. As when the rain or winter arrives the petals of the flower doesn’t look same, as the new bud groom. Similarly, people in the metro are there for a short glimpse at the door of the metro closes, a new group of people arrives in the next metro.