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In a Station of the Metro
Source: Poetry (April 1913).
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Of all the major literary figures in the twentieth century, Ezra Pound has been one of the most controversial; he has also been one of modern poetry's most important contributors. In an introduction to the Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot declared that Pound "is more responsible for the twentieth-century revolution in poetry than is any other individual." Four decades later, Donald Hall reaffirmed in remarks collected . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Social Commentaries, Cities & Urban Life
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Imagery, Epigram, Free Verse, Imagist
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