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.
The first subway access were designed by Hector Guimard (1867- 1942)
in style “art nouveau”, in vogue at the beginning of the century.