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Hi, I'm new here! Avid lover of modern poetry so excited to discuss. Ezra Pound's In 'The Metro of the Station' was the first modernist poem I ever read and it changed my life. "Petals on a wet black bough" is for me one of the most powerful ending lines within literature. What do you think?

Welcome lainon! I think it's a great poem, albeit very short. How I understand it is that Erza is looking out on the station and comparing the stranger's lives to wet petals about to fall from a tree. This is my first time hearing about this poem and I'm having a hard time reading it aloud with the intended spacing and punctuation. Along the same lines as urban poetry, It might be considered plebtier but I really appreciate Howl by Allen Ginsberg, particularly part 1. I see a lot of the drug use, genderqueerness, and policial views reflected in how me, my friends and the general social group behave during this stage of life in my city. Part two has striking imagery and lines that will run through my head during city situations, especially when visiting dense cities like Chicago or NYC. ("Moloch whose buildings are judgment!", "Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!", "Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks!") In terms of contemporary poetry and lyricism that's changed my life, the entirety of Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" always comes back to me in certain situations and when reflecting on race identity, vices, and class disparity. If you haven't already heard it you should give it a listen.

>>1102 Just figured out he bough is pronounced "bah-ow" as in "about" which makes it a lot easier to read.

>>1102 I know it's the original, but that formatting is so much worse lol.