In a Station of the Metro central image subject How is the central image in the poem related to the subject the poet intends to present? San Yao 伞瑶 307

A Quotation from Ezra Pound “Three years ago in Paris I got out of a "metro" train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face, and then another and another, and then a beautiful child’s face, and then another beautiful woman….A year later I made the following haiku （俳句） -like sentence: - ---

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

subjects I. What subjects does the poet intend to present? 1.Faces of women and children (suddenly, beautiful) 2. The crowd in the metro station

central images II. What are the central images presented in the poem? Petals on a wet, black bough

subjects images III. How are the subjects in reality related to the images in the poem? The subjects that the poet intends to present are related to the images in the poem in five aspects: 1.Shapes 2.Colors 3.Feelings 4.Movements 5.Contrasts between each subject/image

The apparition of these faces in the crowd.

Apparition 1. A ghostly figure; a specter. 幽灵；幻影 2. A sudden or unusual sight. 突然景象，特异景象 3. The act of appearing; appearance. 出现，显形：出现的行为；露面

Faces in the crowd appear suddenly like the ghostly phantom （幻影）

Apparition 1.Faces: detached from the crowd—a sharp contrast 2.Movement of the faces: flash, suddenly 3.Subject: mystified—from reality to imagination

bough A wet, black bough  Shape: long, thick  Color: black, dark  Feeling: wet, cold  Movement: still, dull （呆滞的） Crowd in the long, dark, wet metro station

Petals  shape: round, oval or pointed  color: bright (pink, white, yellow, etc)  feeling: warm  movement: flickering ( 摇曳，忽 隐忽现 ) in the breeze （ daffodils “fluttering and dancing in the breeze ） faces flashing metro station Lovely faces of women and children flashing in the dark and wet metro station apparition

Central images VS Subjects in the real world bough  Petals and bough: metaphorical counterparts  A sharp contrast sympathizes with the one in the first picture.

III. What are the effects of such connections? 1.From present faces to remembered petals: time limits From a metro station to a bough: space limits --From reality to an imaginative world 2. Vagueness between subjects being described and images in the poem– broadens the imagination– “real” to the mind 3. Contrast and passion: reinforced

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