Response to Pound

The two lines that Ezra Pound has named In a Station of the Metro, is most certainly a poem. This poem contains: line, stanza, rhythm, rhyme, meter, imagery, and symbolism. There is line expressed through rhyme and ambiguity. Stanza is also apparent in this poem because there are two or more lines, it is regular and rhymes.  There is rhythm to these few words so that also emphasizes the fact that it is a poem. This poem shows meter, the first line is an Anapest and the second line is an Iamb. Simply the title and the two lines provoke many images and much symbolism. Without giving extra thought, I get images of a train station, faces in a crowd, and of a tree with thick branches. Special consideration must be given to the final word "bough" and to the context of where the poem is taking place. A bough is the main or very large branch on a tree. It, however, is not the base and it is also not the end of the tree. The people at the metro station do not live there but rather are on a journey to their respective destinations (work, home, friends, etc.). Just like the bough, they are neither at the beginning nor at the end. They are commuting through this station which itself is representative of life. The station is like a checkpoint for the path of the metro, where people can safely get on or off the path of life which is the train. Some people get off the train and continue along this branch of life. In a Station of the Metro is a poem, as you can see through: line, stanza, rhythm, rhyme, meter, imagery, and symbolism.