I Choose To Look At Pound(s)!

The first line of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is written very effectively. It states, "The apparition of these faces in the crowd" (1); he uses the synectoche of faces in a crowd to better illustrate the imagery in the poem. This way, the reader can easily see how the faces are only a part of the crowd similar to the "petals" of a flower or, in this case, a bough. Moreover, choosing to use the would "apparition," which is similar to the word "appear," Pound is able to demonstrate that the reflections of the crowd appear before him in the puddle (as the title explains) "In a Station of the Metro."