What is the object of the poem you just read?
What image is used to describe the object?
By writing that the “faces in the crowd” appear as “petals on a wet, black bough,” Pound compares the sight of the ✔ faces in the crowdflower petalstree branch to an image of faces in the crowd✔ flower petalsa tree branch pressed against faces in the crowdflower petals✔ a tree branch.
Pound’s purpose in using the poem’s imagery was to show how faces are like flowers✔ express the emotion created by beautycontrast the faces with the train stationcapture the suddenness of his vision.
Which phrases did you highlight? Check any of the boxes that apply.
Flatiron Building is an example of early modern photography by Edward Steichen.How is Steichen’s photograph similar to Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro”? Check the three best choices.
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