I selected Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro as my haiku for this assignment. The poem reads as follows:

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough.

The poem was inspired by the Concorde station of the Paris Metro; Pound composed it in 1912 and it appeared in Poetry magazine in 1913. It is considered one of the first haiku in English despite not adhering to the traditional 5-7-5 syllabic scheme; however, the economy of language and reliance on images to express a feeling set it within the tradition.

My concept for the visual representation of this poem is based on the physical appearance of the La Concorde station itself:

The letters on the tiles look really cool, so I thought it would be fun to try to get the poem arranged in a similar way on the web page, like so:

I plan to use a muted palette for this design; probably black, white, and navy blue to emulate the appearance of the subway station itself.