These 20 Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures
People-watchers, trainspotters and A.O. Scott agree: Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is one of the shortest great poems in English.
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In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound \\
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; \\
Petals on a wet, black bough.
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