Imagism

use of description of color and motion, making the reader gain a pretty clear picture in their head. He does this in other poems like “The Red Wheelbarrow” or “Queen-Ann’s Lace” add colorful description to his short, expressive poems that dwell on imagism. The Brueghel series takes a very important art historical source as its subject. Williams explicates the paintings, like any art historian would, except he enjambs all of the lines to make them more abstract and to invert the reader’s…

Williams tended to write about things and situations he saw in everyday life often creating a simple image or scene. While William Carlos Williams may have been a few years late from the peak of imagism, and differed slightly from the creator, Ezra Pound, his contributions have not gone unnoticed. In the year 1917, William Carlos Williams published a poem entitled Chinese Nightingale. This poem is composed of three lines that is meant to be read…

Williams is known for comparing the poetic form to a machine: “There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words.” (“Williams’s Introduction” 256). Immediately, a machine-focused imagism is reminiscent of a political institution that functions solely to accomplish a goal. In terms of sentimentality, Williams’ philosophy also applies to politics, which often rely on outcomes and statistics to make hard decisions that affect the entire…

“War is Kind” Stephen Crane, American novelist and poet, is recognized by Schoenberg and Trudeau, “as one of the most important and influential American writers of the late nineteenth century” (1). Crane is best remembered for The Red Badge of Courage, a masterpiece novella about the American Civil War. In addition to that work, he wrote other novels, novellas, short stories, journalistic articles, non-fiction and books of poetry. War is Kind is a book of poetry featuring the title poem “War is…

Three Unique Writers Reforming Worldview “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass” (Whitman, v. 1-5). For many eras, authors and poets, like Walt Whitman have attempted to capture what it means to be an individual as a universal theme, and what it means to be an American. Multitudes of writers have come close to…

Ezra Pound gathered the scattered experimenters of imagism in a group and published Des Imagistes in America in 1914. It was quickly followed by three annual Imagist Anthologies- Some Imagist Poets in 1915, 1916 and 1917 respectively. The Imagists announced some “six principles for themselves to practice- (1) to use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly exact, not merely the decorative word; (2) to create new rhythms- as the expressions of new moods…

of fragmentation, ambiguity, uncertainty Modern Poetry Chicago poets: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Hart Crane (1899-1932) Imagist poets T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Fugitives / Agrarians Imagism (1909-1917) U.S.: Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams England: F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) The…