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Imagism
Name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 and
represented by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others, aiming at clarity
of expression through the use of precise visual images. In the early
period often written in the French form Imagisme.
IMAGIST,
A group of American and English poets whose poetic
program was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound--in
conjunction with fellow poets Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Richard
Aldington, and F.S. Flint--and was inspired by the critical views of
T.E. Hulme, in revolt against the careless thinking and
Romantic optimism he saw prevailing.
The Imagists wrote succinct verse of dry clarity and hard outline in
which an exact visual image made a total poetic statement. Imagism was
a successor to the French Symbolist movement, but, whereas
Symbolism had an affinity with music, Imagism sought analogy with
sculpture. In 1914 Pound turned to Vorticism, and Amy Lowell largely
took over leadership of the group. Among others who wrote Imagist
poetry were John Gould Fletcher and Harriet Monroe; and Conrad Aiken,
Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot were
influenced by it in their own poetry.
The four Imagist anthologies (Des Imagistes, 1914; Some Imagists,
1915, 1916, 1917), and the magazines Poetry (from 1912) and The Egoist
(from 1914), in the United States and England, respectively, published
the work of a dozen Imagist poets.
From an Imagist manifesto:
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.
6. Finally, most of us believe that concentration is of the very
essence of poetry.
Name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 and
represented by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others, aiming at clarity
of expression through the use of precise visual images. In the early
period often written in the French form Imagisme.
IMAGIST,
A group of American and English poets whose poetic
program was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound--in
conjunction with fellow poets Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Richard
Aldington, and F.S. Flint--and was inspired by the critical views of
T.E. Hulme, in revolt against the careless thinking and
Romantic optimism he saw prevailing.
The Imagists wrote succinct verse of dry clarity and hard outline in
which an exact visual image made a total poetic statement. Imagism was
a successor to the French Symbolist movement, but, whereas
Symbolism had an affinity with music, Imagism sought analogy with
sculpture. In 1914 Pound turned to Vorticism, and Amy Lowell largely
took over leadership of the group. Among others who wrote Imagist
poetry were John Gould Fletcher and Harriet Monroe; and Conrad Aiken,
Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot were
influenced by it in their own poetry.
The four Imagist anthologies (Des Imagistes, 1914; Some Imagists,
1915, 1916, 1917), and the magazines Poetry (from 1912) and The Egoist
(from 1914), in the United States and England, respectively, published
the work of a dozen Imagist poets.
From an Imagist manifesto:
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.
6. Finally, most of us believe that concentration is of the very
essence of poetry.
Literature
napowrimo
april 1st
i just sat there
words lodged in my throat
eyes burning with tears that
i wasn't going to let escape
while you broke
into pieces i couldn't fix.
april 2nd
you gave me stained fingertips
the same colour as your belly.
i still dont know if its from
your poorly rolled mentol's
or if its the colour of
the deepest regret
i've ever felt.
april 3rd.
i tried to write this poetically.
with oceans and stars
and metaphors
so large i lose
connection.
but i can't
some things just
aren't poetic.
april 4th.
you're body was
black and blue
but oh god
there was colour.
there was colour.
and colour means life.
right?
even if its clinging on
Literature
voidfriend
i.
her eyes
never land.
a scape claimed
no matter how sharp
her intake,
or the orbits
aligned by her will,
or the scope
of the aperture
filled.
lips fueled
and begging
to be ignited.
ii.
she can't fight it.
cracks in the visor
and pressure leaks.
a void
asking her hand
and her peace
as the tip
of her tongue
starts to freeze.
spidered sight
and face
like a shard
divided.
iii.
"if i have to be breathless,"
she finally states,
"i'd prefer it to be by the trident."
Literature
writers for truth
if i had children, they would be artists
not bankers, nor politicians, nothing wasteful
and if they were writers, they would not write for money
they would write for truth
i know you can't dictate to your children
only install in them values
i think art is an underated value
undermined
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Hi. Would you please tell me where you find this Manifesto? I mean, de bibliographical reference, etc. Greetings from Mexico.