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Pound's In a Station of the Metro a couplet poem    the best example of minimalistic 'pared ' down imagist verse https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12675/in-a-station-of-the-metro

 

STRAND POETIC REVIEW sep 5

Minimalistic Ezra Pound
also wrote poetry most profound
but in his 'Station Metro' verse
he pared&pared to make it terse

Idaho's Ezra Pound
with Canto did astound
He began as an imagist theorist
with the genre did not persist
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