{"id":1416,"date":"2010-09-21T01:42:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2010-09-20T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:43:31","slug":"tuesday-poem-in-a-station-of-the-metro-by-ezra-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/tuesday-poem-in-a-station-of-the-metro-by-ezra-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “In A Station of the Metro” By Ezra Pound"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a Station of the Metro<\/strong><\/p>\n

The apparition of these faces in the crowd,
\nPetals on a wet, black bough.<\/p>\n

Ezra Pound, 1885-1972<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Last week I posted a haiku by Bassho as my Tuesday poem<\/a>. This week I have chosen a very short poem by Ezra Pound<\/strong><\/a>, a poet greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese verse, to complement the haiku. In a Staion of the Metro<\/em> is not a haiku, but I believe it encapsulates much of what the haiku form seeks to accomplish, chiefly the capture of that single “a-ha” moment in the most succinct form possible. I am also intrigued by the way the title is effectively part of the poem—although not necessary for the subsequent two lines to also work—and that like a haiku, the poem works equally well when the lines are read in reverse order.<\/p>\n

Recently I posted The World as Meditation<\/em>, a poem by Wallace Stephens<\/a>. Ezra Pound is another American poet from the same era, much of whose poetic work I admire greatly, while admiring his politics, most notably fascism and anti-semitism, not at all.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

To see the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Blog<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click here <\/a>or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd, Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound, 1885-1972 — Last week I posted a haiku by Bassho as my Tuesday poem. This week I have chosen a very short poem by Ezra Pound, a poet greatly influenced by Chinese and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}