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This three sentence summary provides the key details about the Imagism poetry movement: Imagism was a movement in early 20th century poetry that aimed for clarity of expression through precise visual images, originating in 1912 and championed by poets like Ezra Pound who formulated its principles of using direct treatment of imagery and language of common speech in short, clear poems like Pound's "In the Station of the Metro".
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- 3. Imagism Defined Imagism is a name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912, aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/imagism- def.html
- 4. The Imagists A group of American and English poets whose poetic program was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound. The imagists wrote succinct verse of dry clarity and hard outline in which an exact visual image made a total poetic statement.
- 5. D.H. F.S. Lawrence Flint Richard Amy Aldington Lowell Ezra Found H.D. John Hilda Gould Doolittle Fletcher
- 6. Forerunners of Imagism Imagism, as a movement, is often credited to have started with T.E. Hulme, who created the Poet's Club in 1908. After the death of T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound spread the idea of "dry, hard, classical verse“
- 7. Tenets of Imagism Ezra Found 1. Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome”
- 8. Tenets of Imagism… 1. To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word. Amy Lowell
- 9. Avoid inversions and clichés of the old poetic jargon Example of inversion: Yourself, how do you do, Very well, you I thank. Example of the old poetic jargon: To ope my eyes Upon the Ethiope splendour Of the spangled night.
- 10. Exact word which conveys the writer’s impression to the reader must be used. Example : Great heaps of shiny glass Pricked out of the stubble By a full, high moon.
- 11. Tenets of Imagism… 2. To create new rhythms – as the expression of new moods – and not copy old rhythms which merely echo old moods. (New cadence means new idea.)
- 12. Tenets of Imagism… 3. To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject. 4. To present an image (hence the name ‘imagist’) (Poetry should render particulars exactly and not deal in vague generalities.)
- 13. Example: “The Calm” At noon I shall see waves flashing, White power of spray. The streamers, stately Kick up white puffs of spray behind them. The boiling wake Merges in the blue-black mirror of the sea.
- 14. Tenets of Imagism… 5. To produce poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred nor indefinite. (This does not refer to subject but to rendering of subject.)
- 15. Tenets of Imagism 6. Concentration is of the very essence of poetry.
- 16. Sea Garden (H.D.) Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem— you are caught in the drift. Stunted, with small leaf, In the Station of the Metro you are flung on the sand, Ezra Pound you are lifted in the crisp sand The apparition of these that drives in the wind. faces in the crowd; Can the spice-rose Petals on a wet black drip such acrid fragrance bough. hardened in a leaf?
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