Imagist Poetry

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Imagist Poetry

• clarity of expression through the use of precise
  visual imagery

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Ezra Pounds Tenets of Imagist Poetry

• I. Direct treatment of the "thing," whether
  subjective or objective.II. To use absolutely no
  word that does not contribute to the
  presentation.III. As regarding rhythm to
  compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in
  sequence of the metronome.

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The Imagist Movement

• Largely accepted to have begun in 1908 born of
  British and American poets
• Reaction against the careless thinking of the
  Romantics
• Goal was precision of language without using
  overly complicated terminology
• The Imagist movement had effectively ended by 1920

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The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams

• So much depends
• Upon
• A red wheel
• Barrow
• Glazed with rain
• Water
• Beside the white
• chickens

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Fog
By Carl Sandburg
The fog comes on little cat feet.   It sits
looking over harbor and city on silent haunches
and then moves on.
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In a Station at the Metro
By Ezra Pound

• The apparition of these faces in the crowd
• Petals on a wet, black bough.

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