Question

Why did Ezra Pound reduce "In a Station of the Metro" from 30 lines to two?
answer: B) He wanted to make the poem more concise and direct.

Answer 1

Why did ezra pound reduce "in a station of the metro" from 30 lines to two?

a. he wanted to emulate victorian poetry.

b. he wanted to make the poem more concise and direct.

c. he was trying to imitate short romantic poetry.

d. he feared no one would read the poem if it was long.

ANSWER: b. he wanted to make the poem more concise and direct

Explanation:

• Pound's tale of how he wrote "Metro station" crystallizes the process of Imagist. The process began in the year 1911, when he saw a series of beautiful faces from La Concorde's metro station in Paris.
• He had tried all that day to find words for what that had meant to him, however, he could not  – nothing could equal the sudden emotion He had felt. That evening, nearly unconsciously, he had found the expression, actually splotches of colour, “a word, the beginning, for him of a language in colour”
• He realized that "in the arrangement of planes or in a pattern of figures there was much pleasure as in the painting of portraits of fine ladies"

• His escape or exploration of how to render the Imagist poem, was the single-image poem. He originally wrote, but destroyed, a thirty-line Metro poem. He made a poem halfway through six months, which he transformed a year later into:

            "The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

              Petals, on a wet, black bough".

• Such a poem is an effort to document the exact moment when something external and objective transitions into something inner and subjective. It is an effort at the same time that he writes about a poem. Pound then carefully differentiates Imagism from Vorticism, which BLAST articulated and establishedwithWyndham Lewis.

Answer 2

Why did Ezra Pound reduce "In a Station of the Metro" from 30 lines to two?

answer: B) He wanted to make the poem more concise and direct.

Explanation:

In A Station Of The Metro is a poem by American modernist poet Ezra Pound published in 1913 in Poetry magazine.  The two-line poem is the best example of imagism in poetry. Imagism  was a movement in early twentieth century in Anglo-American poetry for clear, sharp language and precised imagination rather than using poetic decorative and complicative  tools and techniques such as meter, rhyme etc. The main purpose was to communicate the idea of the poet easily to the readers. The poet imagines the petals on a tree branch after he sees crowd of people in a subway  station. There is a combination of both the forms of perceptions that is one which is happening before his eyes and the one which is in his mind. Hence the poem is said  to be a connect between the sight and the imagination in shaping people's perception around the world.

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