The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
– Ezra Pound
(1885-1972)
This poem was first published in 1913 and is considered one of the leading poems of the Imagist tradition. Pound’s process of deletion from thirty lines to only fourteen words typifies Imagism’s focus on economy of language, precision of imagery and experimenting with non-traditional verse forms. The poem is Pound’s written equivalent for the moment of revelation and intense emotion he felt at the Paris Metro’s Concorde station.
It is sometimes considered to be the first haiku published in English, though it lacks the traditional 3-line, 17-syllable structure of haiku.
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