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Major feature--2
Imagism produced free verse without imposing a rhythmical pattern.
The rhythm was composed as if the poet were making a music phrase. This was a doing-away with conventions of meter so that the poet needed not make his ideas fit into an established meter as in a sonnet or a ballad. The poet created new rhythms in the sequence of the musical phrase as the expressions of a new mood.
6. Finally, most of us believe that concentration is of the very essence of poetry.
Ezra Pound
Imagist Manifesto
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
American poet, critic, editor, and translator; one of the foremost literary figures in literary modernism As a poet, Pound experimented with various verse forms, from short poems focusing on concrete images to his epic masterpiece, the Cantos. As an essayist, he wrote manifestos establishing influential principles of style and theme. As a critic and editor, Pound discovered and encouraged many experimental authors, including Irish writer James Joyce, English poet T. S. Eliot, and American writers Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway. Note: Cantos, a wide-ranging series of poems combining ancient and modern history with Pound’s personal reflections and experiences.
The Imagist writers also had the same feeling of determinism that the reader should only look at the image. If the reader looks at the image, it will evoke an emotion immediately.
1. To use the language of common speech, but to employ the exact word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.
2. We believe that the individuality of a poet may often be better expressed in free verse than in conventional forms. In poetry, a new cadence means a new idea. 3. Absolute freedom in the choice of subject. 4. To present an image. We are not a school of painters, but we believe that poetry should render particulars exactly and not deal in vague generalities, however magnificent and sonorous. It is for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk the real difficulties of his art. 5. To produce a poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred nor indefinite.
Summary
Imagism was a radical change from the way poetry had been written in the 19th century. These modernist poets tried to keep their ideas to themselves, merely giving the reader the description of the outward surface. Therefore, an Imagist poem consists of clear visual images, often juxtaposed with other images, prompting the reader to an imaginative response that completes its meaning.
The imagist poets called for new rhythms, clear images, free choice of subject matter, compressed poetic expression, and use of
With a spirit of revolt against conventions, imagism was antiromantic and anti-Victorian.
It stressed free choice of subject matters (often dealing with single, concentrated moments of experience), concreteness of imagery, musical phrases, economy of expression, and the use of a dominant image. It aimed at instantaneous effect, visual and concise. Imagists used the language of common speech and employed exact words instead of the flowery language of poetry. They avoided all cliche expressions, the ornate diction, and complex verse forms of traditional poetry.
Movement
Imagism is a poetic movement of England and the United States, which flourished from 1908 to 1917. Its creed, expressed in Some Imagist Poets (1915), included the use of the language of common speech, precision, the creation of new rhythms, absolute freedom in choice of subject matter, the evocation of images in hard, clear poetry, and concentration.
Major feature--4
Imagism tried to record objective observations of an object or a situation without interpretation or comment by the poet. Imagism required a poet to present just a picture, not his insight. It is very biological and very scientific. They never stated the emotion in the poem, but just presented an image: concrete, firm, definite in picture. Any significance to be derived from the image had to appear inherent in its clean presentation.
The most important figures are Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Amy Lowell, and William Carlos Williams.
Other important poets in this period include T. S. Eliot, E.R. Robinson, Wallace Stevens, and E.E. Cummings.
Imagism
Origination
Originating in the philosophy of T.E. Hulme, the movement soon attracted Ezra Pound, who became the leader of a small group opposed to the romantic conception of poetry and inspired by Greek and Roman classics and by Chinese, Japanese, and modern French poets.