Examine what's missing in this writing. In your opinion, is it a complete poem? If so, how are we to read it that is, comprehend meaning in it?

Ezra Pound was a Modernist poet. The poem "In a Station of
the Metro" is considered to be an Imagist poem. An Imagist poem, brought to the
forefront of poetics in the 1920's, was poetry which depicted precise imagery and clear
language.

The poem "In a Station of the Metro" is the
quintessential Imagist poem. The poem depicts the honesty of precise words and nothing
more. The poem, itself, is a sort of snapshot. Written recalling a brief moment in time,
the poem describes a picture of a Paris metro during the
1920's.

Therefore, the poem, when looked at from the point
of its form (Imagist), is not missing anything at all. The meaning of the poem is
simplistic: a picture of life, a snapshot, a moment of time captured in poetic
form.

One must understand how Pound wrote and what he meant
to depict in his poetry. The poem is simple and concise, as was the moment in time Pound
is detailing.