AGES ERA PERIOD
20TH CENTURY
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a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
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an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
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an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
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the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility
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Detailed explanation-1: -A reactionary movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry, imagism emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images. Though Ezra Pound is noted as the founder of imagism, the movement was rooted in ideas first developed by English philosopher and poet T. E.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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: -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.