Ezra Pound's "In The Station of hte Metro"

Ezra Pound’s use of imagery, alliteration, and assonance in the poem In a Station of the Metro depicts a scene of people’s faces in a dark crowded subway station in Paris. It is through this scene that Pound is able to uncover to the reader that no matter how dark and subterranean the environment, the people that dwell within it still remain beautiful and pleasant. The title, In a Station of the Metro, …

…darkness. With his use of such literary tools as imagery, alliteration, and assonance, Pound communicates a distinct theme to the reader. Despite how uninviting, dark, or cold an environment can be, people remain beautiful. Pound identified this beauty in his experience on a train in a subway station. Works Cited Pound, Ezra. In a Station of the Metro. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Eds. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen Mandell. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 1991. 656