Question

What ideal of imagist poetry is best reflected in this poem by Ezra pound in which he compares a crowed metro station to a flowering tree branch?

Answer 1

The word imagist comes from the same root as imagery. Imagery is the use of specific words and details to create an image in the mind of the reader through vivid description. In this poem, Pound uses the image of a wet, tree branch plastered with petals to describe the faces of people in a metro station. In this way he takes an ordinary subject and describes it in a new way.