In the poem “in a station of the metro” what is so startling about the imagery that compares human faces in the subway to flower petals? what quality of urban life does the image evoke? ( what is the relationship between place and literature? ) no copy right

"In a Station of the Metro" (1913) by Ezra Pound creates an imagery that compares the human faces with the flower petals. Through the connecting image the poet links cycle of nature with the urban life. The movement of the human in the subway is linked with that of a tree that they are continuously moving, changing and growing. As when the rain or winter arrives the petals of the flower doesn’t look same, as the new bud groom. Similarly, people in the metro are there for a short glimpse at the door of the metro closes, a new group of people arrives in the next metro.

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran