Poetry Analysis- in the Station of the Metro

When we establish verses, we dont exactly interpret the centre of it automatically. It takes us a shot, or two, or three to fully understand the meaning of it or at least hold your knowledge interpretation. In the poem In a Station of the thermionic vacuum tube, written by Ezra Pound, one of the themes that argon presented is modernization. Nowadays, the metro isnt the place where pack want to be because of its lousy appearance, the people seem a little odd for others, and in other words people dont like taking it because we all have the mastermind that manything bad depart happen.In the next few paragraphs, it will explain detail by detail how certain literary elements are used and relate to the theme. E very(prenominal)thing we read has a mood to put us in while we read whether itd be comical, depressing, or even mysterious. The poems mood is profound. why is this poem so profound? Well for one, with only 2 sentences there are only so much that we can uncover ab by a poem . A perfect example to back up the fact that this poem is profound is the title.We all think that the title isnt as important as the rest of the poem but in this one it is because with kayoed it, nobody would be able to figure out the real meaning since no one will know what the writer wrote about. For example, without the title, it can be a performer looking at the audience waiting, looking like petals on a branch practiced sitting there waiting for seasons to change, meaning for the performer to go up. Profound moods and modernization come together because when you think about something in general, sometimes you punctuate discovering a new meaning to it.In the poem, we see a clear indication that with the only two sentences there are, we are supposed to come up with our own meaning. What the author did was probably for us readers to decode our own meaning of the poem by just writing 2 sentences. Because the mood is so profound, its very relevant to modernization because in the m odern world, we find that metros are filled with angry people pushing, dirty floors and walls. The author is basically telling us that we are still the same people just on a dirty metro, as good reminding us to be calm and think of ourselves as flowers on a branch.What we see and what we genuinely interpret are two different things. Not everything is what it seems to be. Another element used is comparisons. To compare something means to take something and specify it seem like something else. In the poem, the poet describes faces in the crowd as petals on a wet, black bough because in a crowd, its easy to pick out different faces because everyone is different. Everyone has a unique look and since the poet is picking out faces in a crowd, it could be a comparison to picking out petals, off a stem or a bough, one by one as if each petal was an individual face.Imagery can also be linked with the question of comparisons because every sentence has a different meaning that can be linke d to each other in a way that we can presuppose it. Usually a metro is hectic, nobody really wants to be in it especially at rush hour, but what the poet is trying to do is remind us that at heart our environment around us are serenity and peace in ourselves that we have to think of. Petals from flowers are very delicate and the poet tells us that if its hectic on the metro or anywhere else, there is always peace to think of, like the flowers.These elements are relevant to the theme because nowadays, people melt to judge before they think twice. In the poem for example, if the people werent reminded that there is peace and serenity within themselves, because theyd think their baseball club is a bad place. Is there such thing as non finger? Is a pile of nonsense put together supposed to make sense? In the poem, the last two elements presented are effective gunstock breaks and ambiguity.To be ambiguous means to be vague, and the poem really shows the vagueness in the effective l ine breaks. Every line in the poem is a different sentence, irrelevant to the others. The first sentence would have to be the title, In a Station of the Metro. This is an incomplete sentence and with the others that come, it still makes no sense. The second sentence is The apparition of these faces in a crowd, still an incomplete sentence because theres a verb that needs to come into play for it to be complete and make sense.And the last sentence of the poem is Petals on a wet, black bough this as well is an incomplete sentence simply just a description. But if everything is put together, this is where ambiguity and as well imagery comes in. The fact that everything is so vague and that by and by every sentence theres a break, it could subliminally mean that everything is meant to be put together like a puzzle. When the sentences are put together, it tells us that within a crowd of people on a metro, everyone is unique like petals on a bough.Even if something is ambiguous, there is always a way to figure out some meaning for it. This is related to modernization because like imagery, we dont perceive things for what they are right away so its very vague, then after figuring out what it could mean or be everything would make sense. To conclude, modernization has changed the way we think as the years go by, we all have different points of view now and we judge before we think things through.In the poem, using all the elements like mood, imagery, comparisons, ambiguity and use of effective line breaks, they all had some relevance towards the theme which was modernization. Things have changed since the earlier years. Back then, no one judged right away, everyone was just living. Now that we have new technology and such, it makes us unsympathetic minded because technology told made us believe that the real world sucks. The poem made me realize that there is more to the world than what we can actually physically see. Sometimes what we see isnt exactly what we think it is.