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: > > 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 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