LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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Question
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Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”
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Bishop’s “One Art”
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Auden’s “Paysage Moralisé”
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William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”
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Detailed explanation-1: -“In a Station of the Metro” is a type of poem called a haiku (sometimes spelled “hokku”) a traditional Japanese nature-image poem of precisely 17 syllables. Pound’s haiku has 19 syllables, 12 in the first line and 7 in the last.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; he suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an “equation".
Detailed explanation-3: -"In a Station of the Metro” is a poem by American writer Ezra Pound, originally published in 1913. Pound’s two-line poem is a famous example of “imagism, ” a poetic form spear-headed by Pound that focuses above all on relating clear images through precise, accessible language.
Detailed explanation-4: -“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Describing the Paris Underground, “In a Station of the Metro” is often considered the first haiku written in English, though it does not follow the 5/7/5 structure.