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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:
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.
J, Korg
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Tim Romano wrote:
> I've had my nose in medieval english texts lately, and both my spelling and
> punctuation are the worse for it. Let me correct the punctuation and the
> spelling of "In a Station of the Metro":
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> The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
> Petals on a wet, black bough.
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> Tim Romano
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