Chapter Eleven

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Chapter Eleven

• 20th-Century American Poets (1)
• Ezra Pound (1885 1972)

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Literary Term

• Imagism
• It refers a poetic expression that was embraced
  by some American poets, including some of the
  European ones, in the early 20th century, aiming
  at a full expression of the modern spirit, the
  sense of fragmentation and dislocation.

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• Imagism came as a reaction to the traditional
  English poetics with its iambic pentameter, its
  verbosity, and extra-poetic padding but it also
  voiced the spirit of the age. The most
  outstanding American spokesman for the Imagist
  Movement is Ezra Pound.

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Three Imagist poetic principles

• direct treatment of the thing, whether subjective
  or objective
• to use absolute no word that does not contribute
  to the presentation.
• to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase,
  not in the sequence of a metronome in regarding
  to rhythm.

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In A Station of the Metro

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

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Chapter Eleven Twentieth Century Poetry

• William Carlos Williams (1883 -1963)

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The Red Wheelbarrow

• So much depends
• upon
• A red wheel
• barrow
• Glazed with rain
• water
• beside the white
• chickens.

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• Robert Frost (1874 1963)

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• Archibald MacLeish (1892 1982)