Imagist Poetry

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Imagist Poetry

• clarity of expression through the use of precise
  visual imagery

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• An unfixed form
• Variety, irregularity, and individuality
• Free verse
• Emphasis on the expression and communication of a
  moment in experience
• A strong visual image

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The Imagist Movement

• Began in 1908- born of British and American poets
  (Ezra Pound)
• Reaction against the Romantics idealism
• Goal was to paint a picture without using a lot
  of complicated words
• 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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The Great FigurebyWilliam Carlos Williams

• Among the rainand lightsI saw the figure
  5in goldon a redfire truckmovingtenseunheede
  dto gong clangssiren howlsand wheels
  rumblingthrough the dark city

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Write your own imagist poem!
The Professional The Example
Your Attempt
Your Title by Your Name
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
The Little Footprint by Joanna Dwyer
so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed
with rainwater beside the whitechickens.
so much dependsupon size two muddyshoes
around his little feet on top the whitecarpet.

so much dependsupon 4 syllables1-2 syllables
3 syllables1-2 syllables4 syllables1-2
syllables.