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[Anonymous No.1365253]

Imagist poetry is the best poetry.

[Anonymous No.1365257]

Unjustified statements are the best statements.

[Anonymous No.1365260]

I don't know it, but you've got me interested. If you're feeling kind, could you post some examples of your favourites?

[Anonymous No.1365263]

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.1365265]

I respect your opinion, OP.

[Anonymous No.1365279]

>>1365260
Here's the classic example from William Carlos Williams. H.D. was also a fantastic Imagist (she was the first person to whom the label was applied.) Ezra Pound developed idiogrammatic theory for Imagism. It was, basically, and English language movement in Modernist poetry. Imagism is so elegant because it combines the experiment of modernity with the classical values of a simple exploration of things, as in the Haiku of Japan.

"This is Just to Say "

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[RimBRO !1tCDRBp7Dk No.1365282]

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

[Anonymous No.1365291]

Heat
by H. D.

O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.

Fruit cannot drop
through this thick air--
fruit cannot fall into heat
that presses up and blunts
the points of pears
and rounds the grapes.

Cut the heat--
plough through it,
turning it on either side
of your path.

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1365297]

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[Anonymous No.1365299]

>>1365297
nice

[Anonymous No.1365309]

OP I think you're unnecessarily limiting yourself to a particular organization of poets. There are poets working today and poets working before imagism that display the values of the movement.


>>1365297
E.E Cummings is not an imagist, but contemporary and certainly influenced by the movement.

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1365317]

>>1365299
I know. I love cummings so much.

inb4 lol gay jokes

I had an anthology that called him an imagist, and of course I understand where they're coming from there, but I think it doesn't really apply to him, when you consider a lot of his poems and the flourishes of language commonly used in them. I also don't think he was part of that group of poets, was he? Imagist poetry is one of those schools that was partially defined by the social circle aspect of it, like the ex-pat writers of the 30s, or am I totally off-base there?

[Anonymous No.1365325]

>>1365309
I had always liked the poets H.D. and William Carlos Williams best, and only last night did I read they were designated as a group--I enjoy many poets from different groups, and I could attempt to retroactively associate them with the Imagists, but I won't. It is just that, this winter, I feel a compulsion to make clear choices and statements of my identity, no matter how finite they may turn out to be--and perhaps this drive for clarity led me right to the imagists--it is only fitting.

[Anonymous No.1365331]

Got to agree with you. Ok, maybe not the greatest, but God tier.

desimagistes [dot] com
Here's the first anthology they published for you.

[Anonymous No.1365337]

>>1365331
Thanks!

[RimBRO !1tCDRBp7Dk No.1365340]

>>1365309
>E.E. Cummings
>contemporary

[Anonymous No.1365370]

Modernism--Imagism--Bauhaus--Fascism: Where is the link?