In a Station of the Metro.doc

Ina Station of the Metro is always acknowledged as the best i magist poem . This poem is inas imple style which just has 14 words in the whole poem. However, the images in this poem give us the interior meaning .The images are apparition, faces, petals and bough. He uses two lines to describe a vivid picture for us. The first line is narrat ion and the second is expression. W hat does the apparition mean? One is“ suddenly appear ” and the other is“ something like the ghost ”.T his word nicely captures the immediate impression left on the poet ’s mind and the powerful emotional impact he felt in that situation. I ts association with ghosts also invokes a vivid view of the ing out of the dark Metro as if they are specters ascending from the underground world. We can easily know that the faces in the subway are depressed .At this time, Pound saw a child ’s lovely face, and then another. A ll the world seems changed. The lovely faces mixed with the depressed faces. And the poet arouse plex of joy and fear which is hard to tell from each other. Of course, in this poem, petals indicate faces. W hen we mention petals, we also think about smil ing or some beautiful thing. The subway is just like the bough, although it is wet, dark and black, we still should use love and smiling to face them. theme When we are talking the theme , we must know some background of this poem. It was written