➢ Ezra Pound: An image is “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”.
➢ Richard Aldington: The exact word must bring the effect of the object before the reader as it had presented itself to the poet’s mind at the time of writing.
Mixed Imagery
• All the images formed into a meaningful whole in a literary piece is often called imagery.
• In the case of mixed imagery where two or more senses cross, a strong impression is made.
• The representation of sense experience through languages.
• A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else.
➢ 1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective;
➢ 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation;
➢ 3. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, nቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱt in the sequence of a metronome.
Types of Image
• An image is something which evokes a sense experience. A writer’s imagery can be visual (pertaining to sight), olfactory (pertaining to smell), tactile (touch), auditory (hearing), gustatory (taste), or a bodily sensation such as pain or the perception of something cold..
Imagism
• Imagism was a poetic vogue that flourished in England and even more vigorously in America, between the years 1912 and 1917.
• The imagist proposals were for a poetry which, abandoning conventional poetic materials and versification, is free to choose any subject and to create its own rhythms, uses common speech, and presents an image or vivid sensory description that is hard, clear, and concentrated.
Imagism
(1900-1910)
Imagism: its definition
➢ T. E. Hulme: The image must enable one “to dwell and linger upon a point of excitement, to achieve the impossible and convert a point into a line”.
• Often the impression is rendered by means of metaphor, or by juxtaposing the description of one object with that of a second and diverse object.
Imagism: principles
The Coming of Image
1. Imagism as a term [p.158-159] 2. T.E. Hulme’s definition
momentary impression one dominant image personal word for expression
Image
Characteristics of Imagist Poetry
• Typically written in free verse and undertakes to render as precisely and tersely as possible the writer’s impression of a visual object or scene.
Kinesthetic Image
• Besides, words can convey a kinesthetic sense when there is a vivid description of motions indicating body language through the use of active verbs and their various forms
Imagism: its representatives