imagism
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5ADJ.
certain, kind, longer, true
VERB + IMAGISM
committed, flowered
IMAGISM + NOUN
d, degree, se
PREP.
in, per
ADV.
positively
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noun
A form of poetry utilising precise imagery and clear language.
The theory that thinking is based on the formation of images in the mind.
noun
Alternative form of imagism.
The same will be true of Imagism: a certain degree of variation from a purist definition of the school will take us to a kind of poetry that “Imagism" can no longer describe, although we may still wish to speak of Imagistic tendencies or echoes in the derivative verse.
In contrast, the short-line poetry that flowered in Imagism offers a kind of homogeneity that follows its own set of decorums, tending to exclude other modes.
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3The same will be true of Imagism: a certain degree of variation from a purist definition of the school will take us to a kind of poetry that “Imagism" can no longer describe, although we may still wis
WiktionaryIn contrast, the short-line poetry that flowered in Imagism offers a kind of homogeneity that follows its own set of decorums, tending to exclude other modes.
WiktionaryWhile in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce) or had moved on to other projects (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) without being succee
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