1-Modern Experience

**the shining sun** · 22-04-2011, 02:31 PM

Modern Experience

-1- Imagism:
The Imagist movement included American poets in the early twentieth century who wrote free verse and were developed to "clarity of expression through the use of precise visual image".
Imagism was a reaction against the flabby abstract language and "careless thinking" of Georgian Romanticism.
Imagist poetry aimed to replace muddy abstractions with exactness of observed detail, apt, metaphors and economy of language.
Pound's definition of the images was " that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time". Pound defined the tenets of imagist poetry as:
1. Direct treatment of the "thing", whether subjective or objective..
2. Complete freedom of subject matter.
3. Free verse was encouraged along with other new rhythms.
4. Common speech language was used.

-2- Objectivism:

The Objectivist poets were a group of second – generation Modernists. They were mainly American and were influenced by , amongst other, Ezra Pound an William Carlos Williams.

The basic tenets of Objectivist were to treat the poem as an object, and emphasize sincerity, intelligence, and the poet's ability to took clearly at the world.

The elements of this approach included: a respect for imagist achievement in the areas of verse libber and highly concentrated language and imagery.
William Carlos Williams' theories concerning the poem's as an autonomous entity resulting from the relationship between the perceiving consciousness and objective reality were of great significance in the formulation of Objectivists' tenets.