01-06-2026, 12:18 AM
The imagist movement directly preceded the modernist movement in poetry. It was originally (so far as I remember) born as a rejection of the flowery verse and over written poetry with its strong metric and rhyme demands from the Romantic period.
I think probably most of what I consider "good" in poetry stemmed from this movement as well as what I consider "bad" in poetry (I should state current poetry, obviously I am not going to try to retcon the last few hundred years0
That being said - I struggle to enjoy or connect with most poems labeled imagist or spawned from the Imagist movement.
What are your thought? Enjoy imagist poems? What is your favorite imagist poem? Do you use techniques of imagism in your own writing or critique?
Thanks
I think probably most of what I consider "good" in poetry stemmed from this movement as well as what I consider "bad" in poetry (I should state current poetry, obviously I am not going to try to retcon the last few hundred years0
That being said - I struggle to enjoy or connect with most poems labeled imagist or spawned from the Imagist movement.
What are your thought? Enjoy imagist poems? What is your favorite imagist poem? Do you use techniques of imagism in your own writing or critique?
Thanks

