Oct. 7 Writing Assignment: On Pound's poem

One response to Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is to ask whether this miniscule thing is really a poem. After all, it’s so short that it seems like we may not be able to do much with it: what’s to discuss? Your task is to write a 300-400 argument that this is definitely a poem and that there are several aspects of it to discuss. You can draw upon the concepts we’ve covered so far: line, stanza, rhythm, rhyme, meter, imagery, and symbolism. You might even give scansion a try and see if you can develop some ideas about the poem based on its syllable stress patterns and/or metrical feet. And, since this is a very image-rich poem, why not post 2 pics with it, to mimic the 2-lines couplet form Pound uses.