Ezra Pound, the founder of imagism, was born in Hailey, Idaho, on October 30th, 1885 (Flory 308). Growing up in Philadelphia, Ezra Pound knew at fifteen what he wanted to do; he wanted to become a poet ("How"). In additon to his writings, he defriended and assisited many of the greatest writers of his time with their careers: T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway (Flory 308). In 1913, he published Contemprania, a group of imagistic poems that included the popular "In a Station of the Metro," stripping away his formerly archaic vocabulary and simplifying his verses (Flory 315). In Des Imagistes, an thology of imagistice poems, Pound emphasized that imagists were committed to the direct treatment of the image whether it is subjective or objective (Alexander 280). Using brevity and exact words, "In a Station of the Metro" reveals an epiphany and presents an unusual connection to...