In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
Modernism / Discovering rhetorical structure
(inspired by Mel MacKey’s article “Discovering Rhetorical Structure: Paths to Better Reading, Thinking, and Writing” and Catherine Pfaff’s invaluable comments shared at one of the Toronto AP Summer Institute worshops in June 2011)
Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry.
1. Read the imagist poem below and identify the topic of the poem:
In a station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
The appariton of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
2. What or who is the poem about? Identify its themes.
3. What was the intention of the poet when he wrote this poem?
4. What effect does this poem have on you? Do you like it?
5. Now thinking in terms of speaker, occasion, audience, and purpose, or in terms of intention and effect, propose a rhetotical structure, - one free of stanzaic structure.
(inspired by Mel MacKey’s article “Discovering Rhetorical Structure: Paths to Better Reading, Thinking, and Writing” and Catherine Pfaff’s invaluable comments shared at one of the Toronto AP Summer Institute worshops in June 2011)
Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry.
1. Read the imagist poem below and identify the topic of the poem:
In a station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
The appariton of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
2. What or who is the poem about? Identify its themes.
3. What was the intention of the poet when he wrote this poem?
4. What effect does this poem have on you? Do you like it?
5. Now thinking in terms of speaker, occasion, audience, and purpose, or in terms of intention and effect, propose a rhetotical structure, - one free of stanzaic structure.