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Definition of imagism in English: imagismnoun ˈɪmɪdʒɪz(ə)mˈɪməˌdʒɪzəm mass nounA movement in early 20th-century English and American poetry which sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images. The movement derived in part from the aesthetic philosophy of T. E. Hulme and involved Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Amy Lowell, and others. Example sentencesExamples - Yet these pieces' mixture of lyricism, imagism, meditation and narrative are all hallmarks of the prose poem tradition.
- Symbolism and imagism, stream-of-consciousness and surrealism were all tried out, and three of the poems in Experiment 1 were simply titled ‘Poem’.
- The first two stanzas of the above are very close to imagism.
- Modernist poetics, especially in its early formulation as imagism, also stresses the singularity of visual or tactile stimulus in conjunction with intuitive thought and spontaneous language.
- Within a remarkably short span of time they cycled through a variety of literary schools and trends, ranging from neo-romanticism to imagism to surrealism.
Derivatives noun Then he walked slowly back down the street and resumed a discussion about the relative merits of rival translations of the French imagists. Example sentencesExamples - The North American imagists, although stimulated by French symbolism, tended to use the metaphor sparingly and relied on a poetry of understatement.
- The Spectrists would join the imagists, vorticists, and other groups, but satirize them.
- She also returns to meters the imagists eschewed.
- But in the end, after its unmasking, Spectra didn't matter: the imagists had moved on anyway, and the hoax turned into a benign joke.
adjective ɪmɪˈdʒɪstɪk Celia envisions her relationship with her granddaughter in similarly imagistic terms, which literalizes the cultural and psychic connection accomplished by dream work. Example sentencesExamples - The first collection experiments with an imagistic style; as an English translation, however, it is awkward.
- Without battling once more over the turf-claims for lyric or narrative, we can say lyric poetry is typically brief, its language is imagistic, its nature is deliberately symbolic, and its speaker is an individual.
- It subverts the rules of the rational world - the mainstream world - with its seemingly familiar form that is invaded by the irrational, the surreal, the magically real, the absurd, the imagistic, the truly symbolic.
- There's an awful lot of content in New York poets - in a way they're very figurative and imagistic.
Definition of imagism in US English: imagismnounˈiməˌjizəmˈɪməˌdʒɪzəm A movement in early 20th-century English and American poetry which sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images. The movement derived in part from the aesthetic philosophy of T. E. Hulme and involved Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Amy Lowell, and others. Example sentencesExamples - Within a remarkably short span of time they cycled through a variety of literary schools and trends, ranging from neo-romanticism to imagism to surrealism.
- Modernist poetics, especially in its early formulation as imagism, also stresses the singularity of visual or tactile stimulus in conjunction with intuitive thought and spontaneous language.
- The first two stanzas of the above are very close to imagism.
- Symbolism and imagism, stream-of-consciousness and surrealism were all tried out, and three of the poems in Experiment 1 were simply titled ‘Poem’.
- Yet these pieces' mixture of lyricism, imagism, meditation and narrative are all hallmarks of the prose poem tradition.
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