In a Station of the Metro | Ezra Pound (1912)

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In a Station of the Metro | Ezra Pound (1912)
Suzuki Harunobu, Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night, 18th century (detail)
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The apparition       of these faces      in the crowd;
Petals     on a wet, black bough.
 
Ezra Pound
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Imagist poem first published in 1913 in the literary magazine Poetry.
Ezra Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station La Concorde, in Paris in 1912.
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The pavilion entrance at Bastille Métro station, Paris, 1900
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The first subway access were designed by Hector Guimard (1867- 1942) 
in style “art nouveau”, in vogue at the beginning of the century.

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