LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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“Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images”
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“Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images”
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“Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images”
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“Inclusion of natural objects as symbols”
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Detailed explanation-1: -What Are the Characteristics of Imagist Poetry? Imagist poetry is defined by directness, economy of language, avoidance of generalities, and a hierarchy of precise phrasing over adherence to poetic meter.
Detailed explanation-2: -A reactionary movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry, imagism emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imagism was a sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery with sharp language. The essential idea was to re-create the physical experience of an object through words. As with all of Modernism, Imagism implicitly rejected Victorian poetry, which tended toward narrative.
Detailed explanation-4: -Other early and more radical influences on the imagists included the symbolist poets, classical Greek and Roman poetry, and Chinese and Japanese verse forms, in particular the haiku, or hokku. that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. . . .