Videos
"In a Station of the Metro"
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Pound’s poem set to funny jazz music and grainy pictures. Don’t worry – it’s only 25 seconds long!
Audios
Musical Setting
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A tenth-grader from a famous private boarding school composes a piece of music based on the poem.
Pound Reads Pound
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A great website with all of the collected recordings of Pound reading his own work. Sorry, "In a Station of the Metro" is not included, but there’s tons of other stuff here.
Images
Metro La Concorde
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The sleek, modern metro station of La Concorde, which has been completely rebuilt since Ezra Pound saw flower petals there in 1913.
Place de La Concorde
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The obelisk at Place de La Concorde in Paris.
"Blast"
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An image of the cover of "Blast," the literary journal of the artistic movement called "Vorticism," to which Ezra Pound was a contributor.
Young Ezra Pound
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A photo of Pound as a young man before he got grizzled and bearded. Love the mustache, though.
Other
Modern American Poetry – "In a Station of the Metro"
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A fantastic resource that includes Pound’s description of writing the poem as well as critical interpretations of it.