Up: [[Image]] Related: [[Life Writing]] Created: 2024-05-22 Course: The Image: Heart of the Poem with Ellen Bass for 27 Powers Ezra Pound was one of the founders of the Imagist movement, rejecting the elaborate language of 19th century poets. > [!Orbit] Ezra Pound > An image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. It is the presentation of such a complex instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation, that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth which we experience in the greatest works of art. It is better to produce one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works. ### An Iconic Ezra Pound Poem The following poem began as 30 lines. Pound destroyed it. Six months later, he wrote another that was half the length of the first. And a year after that, this one. Without the title, we'd be lost. With the title, we have the image. #### In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.