Question

In the poem, "In the Station at the Metro," the speaker uses the word apparitions to mean

Answer 1

Answer:

The white-faced ghost-like commuters.

Explanation:

In A Station of the Metro is an imagist poem written by Ezra Pound, an American poet and critic who played an important role in the early modernist poetry movement. It consists of only two lines:

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough.

In his poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912. He described a crowd of people - the commuters. The definition of the word apparition is: a ghost or ghostlike image of a person.

Based on this, we can conclude that the word apparition refers to the white-faced ghost-like commuters.