Ezra Pounds poem In a Station of the Metro is very short. Which makes it hard to write a lot about it. It talks about a metro station and the many different faces that appear in it. He compares it to a branch with many different petals on it. I am sure there is some other deeper meaning that is a subtle comparison that is more controversial than this seeing how this is a famous poem and well known and something famous or well known would not be that shallow.
Carver's poem My Father in His Twenty Second Year is about a boy examining a photo of his father when he was twenty two. At first glance it looks like he is some showboating guy trying to show his manlyness with a beer in one hand and a fish in the other. His son knows the truth that he is not the mans kinda man. He is kind hearted by his limp grip on the fish and beer and the soft look in his eyes. The son knows this because he is the same as his father and can't hold his liquor either and admits to not even knowing a place to catch fish.
Some words i needed to look up to get the exact definition so i could have a better understanding of the poem are posterity, and bough I knew what bough meant but never actually had seen it spelled out. As for posterity i was not quite sure what it exactly meant but after reading the definition it made a lot of sense. Posterity accoring to Merriam Webster's dictionary means "the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation" and the word bough according to the same source means "a main branch." I probably will not use these in my own dictionary because there are never instances that i would have a chance to use them in.
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