Transcript Imagism - Morris Area Schools

Imagism
The most influential movement of its time in English poetry since 1848
By: Noah Grove & Riley Biesterfeld
Definition
History of Imagism
 Ezra Pound is the father of imagism
 Started in London
 Influenced by Greek, Italian, and Chinese poets
 Poets came from Britain, Ireland, and the
United States
 The goal of this movement was to use
descriptive language to identify common
objects
 Amy Lowell was one of the most influential
poets in the movement
 American Poet
 Pound left the movement because of Lowell’s
increased popularity
 Movement was dead by 1917
 Offered a new way of poetry
 This influenced many new poets
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What is Imagism?
It enables reader to use all senses
Uses emotion
Describes an image
Usually short but have a lot of
meaning
 Sparks imagination
 Lets the reader create their own
image
 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972
 American poet and critic
 Attended U of Penn.
 Leader of the imagism movement
 helped discover and shape the work
of other poets such as
 T. S. Eliot
 James Joyce
 Robert Frost
 Ernest Hemingway
The Needle
Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.
Eastward avoid the hour of its decline,
Now! for the needle trembles in my soul!
Here have we had the vantage, the good hour.
Here we have had our day, your day and mine.
Come now, before this power
That bears us up, shall turn against the pole.
Mock not the flood of stars, the thing's to be.
O Love, come now, this land turns evil slowly.
The waves bore in, soon will they bear away.
The treasure is ours, make we fast land with it.
Move we and take the tide, with its next favour,
Abide
Under some neutral force
Until this course turneth aside
 September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963
 Latino-American
 Has a medical degree
 closely associated with modernism and
imagism
Between Walls
the back wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow lie
cinders
in which shine
the broken
pieces of a green
bottle
 Other imagists
Imagism Art
The Great Figure
By William Carlos Williams
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
Fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.