Ezra Pound_Imagism

In the next session, we will see how Ezra Pound defined himself as an Imagist in the text "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste". Here we have a video where it is explained this concept in a concise way:

In this fragment of Pound's text "A Retrospect", the author explains this new poetic school.

"This school [Imagism] has since been “joined” or “followed” by numerous people who, whatever their merits, do not show any signs of agreeing with the second specification. Indeed vers libre has become as prolix and as verbose as any of the flaccid varieties that preceded it. It has brought faults of its own. The actual language and phrasing is often as bad as that of our elders without even the excuse that the words are shoveled in to fill a metric pattern or to complete the noise of a rhyme-sound. Whether or no the phrases followed by the followers are musical must be left to the reader's decision. At times I can find a marked metre in vers libres, as stale and hackneyed as any pseudo-Swinburnian, at times the writers seem to follow no musical structure whatever. But it is, on the whole, good that the field should be ploughed. Perhaps a few good poems have come from the new method, and if so it is justified."

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I hope this would be useful for you to better understand the author.

Raquel Garcia