Describe the situation

• Make sure to use language that appeals to all of your senses!• What would you see? • What would you feel? • What would you hear?• What would you taste? • What would you smell?

We are learning about imagery.

Imagist Poets’ use of imagery to engage the senses.

How are images powerful?

Imagery, Sensory detail, intellectual & emotional complexities

Imagists

Poetry that engages your SENSES

What is an imagist poem?

• Evoke Emotion• Spark Imagination• Use Limited, but VIVID images• Are brief, but meaningful

Review

Imagery: language that

appeals to the senses.

Ezra Pound

• “An ‘image’ is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/famous-kisses/images/2799413/title/vj-day-kiss-photo

What is the…

• Intellectual complex?• Emotional complex?

http://www.universetoday.com/16338/the-sun/

What is the…

• Intellectual complex?• Emotional complex?

In a Station of the Metro

• Ezra Pound• Started with 30 lines; ended with

14 words• Typifies the movements focus

• Economy of language• Imagery• Experimentation

In a Station of the Metro

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/10/12/GA2010101203773.html

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_burns/396960108/

Apparition

• Act of appearing• Connotation—ghost/supernatural

Petals

• Feminine, soft lovely

Black Bough

• Alliteration• Ugly, thick, branch

Juxtaposition

• Petals=beautiful• Black Bough=ugly• Opposites; unity; beauty of the

ordinary

Activate Senses

• Sight?• Smell?• Taste?• Touch?• Hear?

How does this image evoke emotional

complexities? Intellectual

ones?

The Red Wheelbarrow• William Carlos Williams• 1923; height of movement• “no idea but in things”• “not real, not realism, but reality”• Experimental style• Wrote in 5 minutes while looking

out a window

The Red Wheelbarrow

so much dependsupon

a red wheelbarrow

glazed with rainwater

beside the whitechickens.

The Red Wheelbarrow

http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2008/11/in-fall-red-rules-in-my-garden.html

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=226436&page=106

The Red Wheelbarrow

so much dependsupon

a red wheelbarrow

glazed with rainwater

beside the whitechickens.

Vs. the?

Contrasting Colors

Importance of rain to farmers?

How does this reflect the imagist emphasis on the concrete?

Activate Senses

• Sight?• Smell?• Taste?• Touch?• Hear?

The Great Figure

• William Carlos Williams

The Great Figure

• What detail is he focusing on?

• What might that say about beauty? About modern life?

Activate Senses

• Sight?• Smell?• Taste?• Touch?• Hear?

Your turn!

• Choose an image that is inspirational to you.• I suggest using a photo so you may submit

the photo with your poem—otherwise you will have to draw your image too!

• Write an imagist poem using at least 14 words and 2 different senses.

• Consider form and diction as you minimize your word usage and express a high emotion

Remember, Imagist Poems…

• Evoke Emotion• Spark Imagination• Use Limited, but VIVID images• Are brief, but meaningful

Review

Imagery: language that

appeals to the senses.

Ezra Pound

• “An ‘image’ is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

A Solemn Requiem

Grey skies touch the dewy grassA hidden springA fallen hero Swallowed by the earth Or encapsulated? Gelert: the would-be great