Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Frisardi
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
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Well, there you go, you see. Another image of Pound's I have never got.
Whether a metaphor works for you depends so much on experience. I could just about go for faces as petals, but I have no idea where the bough comes into it, and petals aren't in any case connected to boughs, so the whole thing falls apart for me.
When a metaphor really hits home for me is when one relatively obvious quality of a is connected to the same quality of thing b, but then by extension other non-obvious comparisons between the qualities of the two are implicitly invited. I want to hear myself saying, mentally, "yes, of course it's like that".
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