Both poems are brief and rely heavily on the visual senses, for example in Williams’s poem, “a red wheel/ barrow/ glazed with rain/ water” and in Pound’s, “petals on a wet, black bough”. Another note to make in both poems is the structure and where the poet inserted breaks. “In a Station of the Metro” is uniquely arranged with large spaces separating words in the same line and “The Red Wheelbarrow” has interesting line breaks, “so much depends/ on”, “beside the white/ chickens”. And as with both poems, the arrangement serves to highlight the meaning and set up an appealing visual. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is more than just a two-line poem about faces in a station and petals on a tree; it seems to be about the human condition and the hope for something better. Through the use of many literary devices Pound effectively conveys a deeper meaning while doing do in the fewest words
Both poems are brief and rely heavily on the visual senses, for example in Williams’s poem, “a red wheel/ barrow/ glazed with rain/ water” and in Pound’s, “petals on a wet, black bough”. Another note to make in both poems is the structure and where the poet inserted breaks. “In a Station of the Metro” is uniquely arranged with large spaces separating words in the same line and “The Red Wheelbarrow” has interesting line breaks, “so much depends/ on”, “beside the white/ chickens”. And as with both poems, the arrangement serves to highlight the meaning and set up an appealing visual. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is more than just a two-line poem about faces in a station and petals on a tree; it seems to be about the human condition and the hope for something better. Through the use of many literary devices Pound effectively conveys a deeper meaning while doing do in the fewest words