Ezra Pound:In a Station of the Metro

In a Station of the Metro is a little poem of Ezra Pound. He wrote it from the experience of finding a beautiiful child face in Paris Metro station. The poet searched words to express the scene. At last, he create a new style of poem, the "one image poem".


In a Station of the Metro (1913)

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough

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诗文中译：在地铁车站

人群中幽灵般的一张张面孔：
黑色潮湿枝头上的一片片花瓣。

This poem depicts a scene, a kind of feeling, and some imagination. So I hope the picture above will show some of the conception of that.

Do you know whether the poem is the shortest one?