imagist
Mental picture maker
An imagist is a poet associated with Imagism, an early 20th-century movement that emphasized precise, concrete imagery and economy of language over Victorian abstraction.
Ezra Pound and H.D. were prominent imagists.
The term can describe anyone who prioritizes sharp, direct images in their writing: Her spare, imagist style strips away everything unnecessary.
- manifestoPublished statement of principles
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- clarityState of being understandable
directness · objectivity · hardness · economy · exactness · concentration · Japanese haiku · hokku
Poetry without fixed structure
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- clarityState of being understandable
- concreteSolid building mixture
- exactPerfectly correct, no deviation
cadence · rhythm · economy · compression · objectivity · visual · presentation · instantaneous
State of being understandable
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- drynessAbsence of moisture
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
sculptural · chiseled · crystalline · concrete · objective · impersonal · austere · spare
Ezra Pound
- manifestoPublished statement of principles
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
clarity · directness · objectivity · hardness · economy · exactness · concentration · Japanese haiku · hokku · tanka
free verse
Poetry without fixed structure
exact · cadence · rhythm · economy · compression · objectivity · visual · presentation · instantaneous · superposition
clarity
State of being understandable
classical · sculptural · chiseled · crystalline · concrete · objective · impersonal · austere · spare · economical
imagistVictorian poet
Versifier from Britain's empire era
symbolist · sentimentalist · decadent · abstract expressionist · traditionalist
imagistabstractionist
Artist avoiding realistic depiction
theorist · conceptualist · moralizer · sermonizer · generalizer
- imagine thatExclamation of mild surprise
- imaginary friendsFictional companions children create
- imaginary worldsInvented settings for stories
- imaginary lineConceived but unseeable division
- imaginary numbersMultiples of i
- leave to the imaginationNot make explicit
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