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and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much and . This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the , who were by and large content to work within that tradition. Group publication of work under the Imagist name appearing between 1914 and 1917 featured writing by many of the most significant figures in , as well as a number of other figures prominent in fields other than poetry.
Based in London, the Imagists were drawn from Great Britain, Ireland and the United States. Somewhat unusually for the time, the Imagists featured a number of women writers among their major figures. Imagism is also significant historically as the first organised Modernist English language literary movement or group.
At the time Imagism emerged, and were considered the paragons of poetry, and the public valued the sometimes tone of their writings. In contrast, Imagism called for a return to what were seen as more values, such as directness of presentation and economy of language, as well as a willingness to experiment with non-traditional verse forms. The focus on the "thing" as "thing" (an attempt at isolating a single image to reveal its essence) also mirrors contemporary developments in art, especially . Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what called "luminous details", Pound's of juxtaposing concrete instances to express an abstraction is similar to Cubism's manner of synthesizing multiple perspectives into a single image.
· “Image is sth that presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time” – Ezra Pound.
· objective correlative – expressing emotion through “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events” T.S. Eliot. In the “love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock “ by T.S. Eliot
· poet focuses on strong, concrete images
· a poet concentrates on an image and is to objectively present an intellectual and emotional reaction caused by a simple object, experience or phenomenon without referring to abstraction or clichés
In a few words: Imagism – Imagism was a literary movement that flourished between 1912 and 1927. Led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell, the Imagist poets rejected nineteenth-century poetic forms and language. Instead, they wrote short poems that used ordinary language and free verse to create sharp, exact, concentrated pictures.