Question

How would "In a Station of the Metro" change if the bough was bright and lively rather than wet and black?


A.)The station would seem cheerier.

B.)The poem would not be considered imagist.

C.)The people would seem less pleasant.

D.)The poem would no longer be a hokku.

Answer 1

The answer is B.)The poem would not be considered imagist. In poetry, imagism embraces directness of presentation and economy of language that are the main characteristics of modernism in literature. If you change the mood represented in this poem, you will also change its structure and it will be perceived differently than it was. So, it is better to say that it would lose its imagism characteristics if you change the dark tone into the light one.

Answer 2

Correct answer choice is :

A) The station would seem cheerier.

Explanation:

In this fleet poem, Cage explains watching faces seem in a metro station. It is unclear whether he is writing from the vantage point of a traveler on the train itself or on the platform. The background is Paris, France, and as he explains these faces as a crowd, indicating the station is quite busy.