<P> `` In A Station of the Metro '' is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in 1913 in the literary magazine Poetry . In the poem , Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912 ; Pound suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an `` equation '' . Because of the treatment of the subject 's appearance by way of the poem 's own visuality , it is considered a quintessential Imagist text . </P>
<P> `` In A Station of the Metro '' is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in 1913 in the literary magazine Poetry . In the poem , Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912 ; Pound suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an `` equation '' . Because of the treatment of the subject 's appearance by way of the poem 's own visuality , it is considered a quintessential Imagist text . </P>
who wrote in a station of the metro
who wrote in a station of the metro
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound