Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"

Ezra Pound's short poem, "In a Station of the Metro," is a mere fourteen words, but its meaning goes far beyond that. A metro is a train station in Washington D.C., and one that I have ridden on very frequently. Life on the metro is fast-paced, and  made me feel almost isolated, which is a feeling that Pound conveys in the poem. Words used in the poem such as apparition, wet, and black have a very strong connotation that make the poem seem gloomy. One phrase that particularly stood out to me was "these faces in the crowd." This stood out to me because it is something that I have experienced on the metro. While in the metro station, there are so many people that I experienced an impersonal connection with, that I didn't recognize individual faces. I enjoyed Pound's short poem, and that he uses other literary devices rather than the all-too-common use of rhyme. Pound's use of imagery produces a descriptive image in the reader's mind.