Loreena Homan

October 4th 2015

Ms. Hood

Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

I believe that this poem has a deeper meaning that can take place in the time it was wrote, and in today.  I chose this image because it is the image that comes to mind while reading the short poem. An apparition is a ghost like figure of a person.  The first line makes me think of a crowd of people, but all of them are too busy to really be there.  A bough is a thick tree branch, and you can imagine light petals that are stuck to the dark, soggy wood.  These ideas link together to me because I feel like the crowd of expressionless people are the petals on the black bough.  The black bough represents our society and people are so caught up in their working lives, they become stuck to it, and become the expressionless people, or apparitions of themselves lost in crowds.