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Jacob Korg wrote:
> The punctuation of In a Station of the Metro is only half the story. As it
> first appeared in Poetry in 1913, there were significant spaces between
> the words. I don't have it with me, but it looked something like this:
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> The apparition of these faces in the crowd
> Petals on a wet, black bough.
> As far as I know, the poem has never been reprinted that way.
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> J, Korg
This printing of "Metro" long puzzled me. It seemed to indicate something
rhythmical, but I could make no case for it. But I think this is not what EP was
after; instead, I think the effect is one of phanopoeia. When the eye sees the
bough, it does not see wetness plus blackness; it sees "wetblack." Does this
seem reasonable?
Stephen Adams
University of Western Ontario
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