Imagism in the poem “In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound, analysis and interpretation.
“In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound, analysis and interpretation. Imagism:(1912 and 1914) Imagism was an early 20th-century movement born in England and America. It was a reaction to romantic and Victorian poetry. During modernism, the writers tried to experiment with writing so imagism was the product. Ezra Pound was the father of the imagist movement. The aim of the imagist movement was to create concrete images with words. Ezra Pound wrote an essay about imagist poetry Few Don'ts by an Imagiste in this essay Ezra pound defined an image “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Ezra Pound was inspired by Japanese Haiku; therefore, in this essay, he said, a poet should use fewer words and write concisely. He further said that if rhyming and meter are part of your work and they are compromising the quality of your work then you should avoid them. The poem “In a Station of the Metro" is the best example of imagist poetry...