Transcript Symbolism and Imagism

SYMBOLISM AND IMAGISM
English IIIB
Modernist Poetry
MODERNIST POETRY
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Free Verse overrides traditional poetic forms
Free verse does no have set rhyme schemes and
meters.
 It is “Free!”
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IMAGISM: “THE EXACT WORD”
Imagists believed that poetry can be made purer
by concentration on precise images alone
 Instead of being sentimental or “pretty”; they
thought the power of the image would
communicate feeling and thought
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IMAGISM BELIEFS
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1. They proposed to use the “language of common
speech”
2. Believed poetry could be made purer by
concentration on the precise calling for “the exact
word, not merely the decorative word.”
3. Called for poetry to be “hard and clear, never
blurred or indefinite.”
SYMBOLISM
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This type of poetry made great use of symbols (an
object that stands for something else)
Examples:
Wheel Barrow – Being Industrious
 Birch Trees - Youth
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IMAGISM
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Although as a movement it didn’t last long, it
gave rise to some of our greatest poets.
William
Carlos
Williams
Carl
Sandberg
Robert
Frost
e.e.
cummings