【正确答案】正确答案：The passage is selected from Ezra Pound"s In a Station of the Metro.

【正确答案】正确答案：Pound is the leading poet of the Imagism. This school rejects most of the Victorian poetry and aims to create a new clarity and exactness in the short lyric poem. The imagists cultivate concision and directness, building their short poems around single images.

【正确答案】正确答案：This poem is an observation of the human faces seen in a Paris" subway station, in which the faces turned variously toward light and darkness. This poem is in a succinct style, but the images in it give us the interior meaning. The words in the first lines nicely capture the immediate impression and the powerful emotional impact that the author feels in the station. Its association with ghosts also invokes a vivid view of people coming out of the dark Metro as if they are specters ascending from the underground world. We can easily see that the faces in the subway are depressed. Then there comes a petal-like face, and then another. All the world seems changed. The lovely faces are mixed with the depressed faces. The poet arouses a complex of joy and fear which is hard to tell from each other. Pound tells us a lot in this poem, but he does not offer too many details, so we could have a rich imagination from its rich images. In a Station of the Metro is certainly the best imagist poem.