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The Explication of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” Ezra Pound’s words portray a moment frozen in time. The poem, “In a Station of the Metro,” is a poem of imagery. Through imagery, Pound imbues his ....

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... that he sees by giving a select few form, hence, “Petals on a wet, black bough”(2). The author uses “Petals” to relate to the faces that he notices in the amorphous crowd from the “bough” which he relates to the train. Pound uses “Petals” which signify beauty and delicacy, an object spawned from the sun and places them in the “wet, black bough” which relates to subjects of a subterranean plane, a place that is void of sun which is indicative of a subway station. The word “black” used by Pound describes the conditions of the subway. Words associated with black u ...