For Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro", it can be interpreted into a modern poem or an anti modern poem.
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough". Pound can be comparing the appearances on the new faces of the crowd in the subway station to the "Petals on a wet, black bough", which can mean many things. Petals usually do not grow on bough but rather on flowers. A flower is usually interpreted as something attractive and pure. Instead of the petals growing on a beautiful flower, it is growing on a black, usually associated as evil, unappealing bough. This can be interpreted that the appearance are the petals and the bough is the face so meaning that the appearances do not match the face and is quite the complete opposite.
The poem can be pro modern. This can be translated that there are women or different races down in the subway, where usually white males are. Times are changing when women and other races than Caucasian can be down in the subway to go to work, travel, and just enjoy life rather than being stuck at home or not allowed to go on the subway because of their ethnicity.
This poem can also be interpreted into an anti modernity. The appearances on the faces in the crowd which is compared to the petals on the bough can be translated that some types of people do not belong in the station of the subway. In the early 20th century, metro was built; males in France were probably the main workforce. So to get to work the men had to ride the metro. But sometimes there were women riding and in the early 20th century that was unfit and wrong. Women were not suppose to go on the metro, but instead were suppose to stay at home being the housekeeper. So the women in the crowd in the subway do not belong there.
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough". Pound can be comparing the appearances on the new faces of the crowd in the subway station to the "Petals on a wet, black bough", which can mean many things. Petals usually do not grow on bough but rather on flowers. A flower is usually interpreted as something attractive and pure. Instead of the petals growing on a beautiful flower, it is growing on a black, usually associated as evil, unappealing bough. This can be interpreted that the appearance are the petals and the bough is the face so meaning that the appearances do not match the face and is quite the complete opposite.
The poem can be pro modern. This can be translated that there are women or different races down in the subway, where usually white males are. Times are changing when women and other races than Caucasian can be down in the subway to go to work, travel, and just enjoy life rather than being stuck at home or not allowed to go on the subway because of their ethnicity.
This poem can also be interpreted into an anti modernity. The appearances on the faces in the crowd which is compared to the petals on the bough can be translated that some types of people do not belong in the station of the subway. In the early 20th century, metro was built; males in France were probably the main workforce. So to get to work the men had to ride the metro. But sometimes there were women riding and in the early 20th century that was unfit and wrong. Women were not suppose to go on the metro, but instead were suppose to stay at home being the housekeeper. So the women in the crowd in the subway do not belong there.
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