Read “In a Station of the Metro,” by Ezra Pound. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Which
best describes the metaphor conveyed in the poem? The city environment destroys all beauty. Water cleanses the dirty metro station. There is natural beauty in a city environment. The crowd is made up of many different faces.
A metaphor designates identification of one thing with another with which is not literally identifiable. The comparison of "faces in the crowd" in a metro station with "petals on a wet, black bough" at first glance seems to have no relation. However, the underground image ressembles a beautiful view of nature for the speaker. This image might remind him of the flowers of a quiet and nice place in the country side. Accordingly, it is possible to be said that there is natural beauty in a city environment. A complex task when reading poetry is to make multiple associations to find meaning.
‘In a Station of the Metro’, written by Ezra Pound in 1913, is an Imagist poem. In these two lines, Pound´s intention may be interpreted as there is natural beauty in a city environment.
(Answer 3)
The speaker who is at a station of Paris Metro underground gets the image that the faces of people are like the petals hanging on the ‘wet, black bough’ of a tree.This central image of the faces as petals is clear and simple It draws together the urban with the natural world making nature the one who embellishes cities.
Ballad poems are poems telling a story usually through a song. narrative poems tell a story using voices of narrators or charectors using metaphored versus
