LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
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The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
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The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereas World War I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
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World War I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.
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Detailed explanation-1: -d. World War I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.
Detailed explanation-2: -An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -William Carlos Williams forms progressively the theory of his poetic technique of Imagism in this period. He treats the poems as images. In his theory of Imagism, his art continually demonstrates the development of poetic techniques by the help of other artists.