In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in a crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
~ Ezra Pound
Imagism
Period: 1912-1917
Poets: Pound, T. S. Eliot, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle),
Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams,
Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens
Imagists' manifesto - "Make it new!"
Key features: employing "the exact word, not merely the decorative word"
the language of everyday speech
images that capture "an intellectual and emotional complex in
an instant of time" (Pound)
Assignment ~ Imitation of Imagism - poem and illustration
This poem has always lingered in the corners of my mind since the day you introduced it to us, Ms. Hopkins. Definitely one of my favorite, and I've never been particularly fond of poetry.
ReplyDeleteWe read your snowflake poem in class, Edie, as an example of Imagism. It's simply beautiful, and I'd like permission to add it to the blog? :)
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