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Describe the situation
• Make sure to use language that appeals to all of your senses!• What would you see? • What would you feel? • What would you hear?• What would you taste? • What would you smell?
We are learning about imagery.
Imagist Poets’ use of imagery to engage the senses.
How are images powerful?
Imagery, Sensory detail, intellectual & emotional complexities
What is an imagist poem?
• Evoke Emotion• Spark Imagination• Use Limited, but VIVID images• Are brief, but meaningful
Review
Imagery: language that
appeals to the senses.
Ezra Pound
• “An ‘image’ is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”
In a Station of the Metro
• Ezra Pound• Started with 30 lines; ended with
14 words• Typifies the movements focus
• Economy of language• Imagery• Experimentation
In a Station of the Metro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/10/12/GA2010101203773.html
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_burns/396960108/
The Red Wheelbarrow• William Carlos Williams• 1923; height of movement• “no idea but in things”• “not real, not realism, but reality”• Experimental style• Wrote in 5 minutes while looking
out a window
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much dependsupon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the whitechickens.
The Red Wheelbarrow
http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2008/11/in-fall-red-rules-in-my-garden.html
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=226436&page=106
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much dependsupon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the whitechickens.
Vs. the?
Contrasting Colors
Importance of rain to farmers?
How does this reflect the imagist emphasis on the concrete?
The Great Figure
• What detail is he focusing on?
• What might that say about beauty? About modern life?
Your turn!
• Choose an image that is inspirational to you.• I suggest using a photo so you may submit
the photo with your poem—otherwise you will have to draw your image too!
• Write an imagist poem using at least 14 words and 2 different senses.
• Consider form and diction as you minimize your word usage and express a high emotion
Remember, Imagist Poems…
• Evoke Emotion• Spark Imagination• Use Limited, but VIVID images• Are brief, but meaningful
Review
Imagery: language that
appeals to the senses.
Ezra Pound
• “An ‘image’ is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”
A Solemn Requiem
Grey skies touch the dewy grassA hidden springA fallen hero Swallowed by the earth Or encapsulated? Gelert: the would-be great