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The1920sImagismWhatisan“image”?OriginatinginthephilosophyofT.E.Hulme,themovementsoonattractedEzraPound,whobecametheleaderofasmallgroupopposedtotheromanticconceptionofpoetryandinspiredbyGreekandRomanclassicsandbyChinese,Japanese,andmodernFrenchpoets.Theimagistpoetscalledfornewrhythms,clearimages,freechoiceofsubjectmatter,compressedpoeticexpression,anduseofcommonspeech.ImagismisapoeticmovementofEnglandandtheUnitedStates,whichflourishedfrom1908to1917.Itscreed,expressedinSomeImagistPoets(1915),includedtheuseofthelanguageofcommonspeech,precision,thecreationofnewrhythms,absolutefreedominchoiceofsubjectmatter,theevocationofimagesinhard,clearpoetry,andconcentration.IntheU.S.,thegroupwasrepresentedbyPound,JohnGouldFletcher,andAmyLowell.PoundcollectedsomeoftheirworkinDesImagists:AnAnthology(1914),afterwhichhisinterestbegantowane.AmyLowellthenassumedactiveleadership,advocatingthatthegroupsubscribetoafixedprogramandholdtogetherforatleastthreeyears.Underherguidancewerepublishedseveralanthologies,allentitledSomeImagistPoets.ThemostimportantfiguresareEzraPound,H.D.(HildaDoolittle),AmyLowell,andWilliamCarlosWilliams.OtherimportantpoetsinthisperiodincludeT.S.Eliot,E.R.Robinson,WallaceStevens,andE.E.Cummings.Development:threestagesWithaspiritofrevoltagainstconventions,imagismwasanti-romanticandanti-Victorian.Itstressedfreechoiceofsubjectmatters(oftendealingwithsingle,concentratedmomentsofexperience),concretenessofimagery,musicalphrases,economyofexpression,andtheuseofadominantimage.Itaimedatinstantaneouseffect,visualandconcise.Imagistsusedthelanguageofcommonspeechandemployedexactwordsinsteadoftheflowerylanguageofpoetry.Theyavoidedallclichéexpressions,theornatediction,andcomplexverseformsoftraditionalpoetry.Imagismproducedfreeversewithoutimposingarhythmicalpattern.Therhythmwascomposedasifthepoetweremakingamusicphrase.Thiswasadoing-awaywithconventionsofmetersothatthepoetneedednotmakehisideasfitintoanestablishedmeterasinasonnetoraballad.Thepoetcreatednewrhythmsinthesequ
