I am not very experienced with understanding poems. But this will give me some practice at it.
In the first line of "In a station of the metro" is think that Pound unexpectedly sees a large
number of people who are getting prepared to board a train. The word apparition in the first line
was unfamiliar to me. I looked it up and found it means: an unusual or unexpected sight. My first
thought after I saw that this poem was written in the late 1800's was that possibly the people
at the station may represent America as a whole recovering from the Civil War. People are trying
to get used to working together again.

I really enjoyed the poem "Photograph of My Father In His Twenty Second Year". My first impression
is that this is a son who's father was not involved in his son's life. In the second line in the
first paragraph I notice that the son is studying his" father's embarrassed young man's face." I feel
like this tells a lot about the father's outlook on life. Instead of working like he should be at 22 he
is drinking beer and fishing. Probably throughout the son's life this is how his father would act. I see
In line five of the second paragraph "All his life my father wanted to be bold." I take that is as
the father knew what was right for his family but was too scared and weak to actually be a man and
fulfill his role as a father. Now again in the last line of the third paragraph the son states
"don't even know the places to fish?" This is something that shows how frustrated the son was with how
his father had raised him. We know that fishing and drinking were very important to his father, but yet
his father didn't even take the time to teach him these things.

After thinking about this poem I see much of America portrayed in this work. The males in this country
are too weak and instead of making a wrong decision they just run away. I was fortunate to have a
strong father how taught me almost all I know. There were a couple of new words that I don't see very often.
The first is in the first line of the poem, DANK. This means unpleasantly moist or wet. The second was POSTERITY.
This means all future generations. This proves that the father was unsure and fake and he knew it but still
wanted to put on the attitude that he was a strong man.