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IMAGISM
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• Originated in 1912
• Representatives- Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell etc.
• What?- Name given to a movt. in poetry aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images.
• In revolt of Romantic excess.
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The Imagists advise:
• 1. Direct treatment of the ‘thing’, whether subjective or objective.
• 2. To use absolutely no word that did not contribute to the presentation.
• 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
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Pound characterises an image as
• It is the presentation of such a 'complex' instantaneously which gives the sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the greatest works of art.
• It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works. . .
• Use no superfluous word, no adjective which does not reveal something.
• Don't mix an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequatesymbol.
• Go in fear of abstractions. Do not retell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose. It should be hard & definite.
• Don't be descriptive.
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In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
-Ezra Pound, 1913
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Pablo Picasso:
• Girl with Mandolin
• Paris, late spring1910
• Cubism:
Ideogrammic