Ezra Pound's Apparition When I called for the Direct treatment of the thing, Ezra Pound saw at once that if Words are to be as things, Language must be man-made. And when I called for the Other sex to be remade as Objects, Pound went further and Converted an entire crowd into a Bough with blossoms. But why 'apparition,' I asked. It's hardly a thing at all. And ‘petals on a wet, black bough’ Sounds too pastoral, unmanly even, Not what I expected at all.