Exploring the Text

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  1. Do you think this poem is happy or sad? Explain your answer.

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    Exploring the Text: - Do you think this poem is happy or sad? Explain your answer.
  2. What sensory associations do you make when you read this poem?

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    Exploring the Text: - What sensory associations do you make when you read this poem?
  3. What exactly do you think the speaker is looking at? Explain your answer.

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    Exploring the Text: - What exactly do you think the speaker is looking at? Explain your answer.
  4. What is the effect of juxtaposing flowers with a subway station?

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    Exploring the Text: - What is the effect of juxtaposing flowers with a subway station?
  5. You may recognize this poem as a form of haiku (or hokku, as Ezra Pound called it). In what ways is it like a traditional haiku and in what ways is it different? Hint: consider the function of the title.

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    Exploring the Text: - You may recognize this poem as a form of haiku (or hokku, as Ezra Pound called it). In what ways is it like a traditional haiku and in what ways is it different? Hint: consider the function of the title.
  6. Pound was an imagist, one of a group of English and American poets who wrote free verse and believed in the simple clarity of an image. “In a Station of the Metro” is considered a prime example of imagism. Looking at this brief poem, consider how Pound uses metaphor to make us see something new in a train station and how it came to be an iconic imagist poem.

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    Exploring the Text: - Pound was an imagist, one of a group of English and American poets who wrote free verse and believed in the simple clarity of an image. “In a Station of the Metro” is considered a prime example of imagism. Looking at this brief poem, consider how Pound uses metaphor to make us see something new in a train station and how it came to be an iconic imagist poem.