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The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914.. Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
The poem was first published in 1913 and is considered one of the leading poems of the Imagist tradition. Pound's process of deletion from thirty lines [6] to only fourteen words typifies Imagism's focus on economy of language, precision of imagery and experimenting with non-traditional verse forms.
The poetic devices and rich imagery used by MacLeish help make clear the theme(s) of the work. The most central theme to “Ars Poetica” is the goal of a poem, which MacLeish identifies as captivating a reader in the same way a painting or sculpture captures audiences. However, a poem's purpose is not the only theme touched on in the work.
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads , a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a ...
It was concerned with synaethesis (the harmony or equilibrium of sensation) [26] and later described as "the moment when French poetry began to take consciousness of itself as poetry." [27] Gustave Kahn was commonly supposed to have invented the term vers libre and according to F. S. Flint, he "was undoubtedly the first theorist of the ...
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
A 1913 photograph of Ezra Pound, one of the most influential modernist poets. The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, whose long lines approached a type of free verse, the prose poetry of Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning's subversion of the poetic self, Emily Dickinson's compression and the writings of ...