Imagism in poetry

[milo]

I enjoy them, but as I’ve written elsewhere, you can have too much of a good thing.
I had written a poem about it a while ago (apologies for plugging my pome in): https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-26404.html

  IMO it makes sense to show what we mean using our own work, I have no problem with it at all and wouldn't mind even adding it inline and discussing it here.  It is interesting that the poem linked is not what I would consider imagism in any way but maybe a statement on imagism.

But I would definitely like to write like a William Carlos Williams or an Ezra Poind. It may not be my cup of tea, but it’s a skill that should be learnt.

I wonder though, if poetry loses its spontaneity with too much learning. There is the craftsman and there is the creator. Ideally, you can be both, but perhaps being very good at one necessarily comes at the expense of the other. Like an LLM, you get too well trained on a narrow dataset

This part here, I think about a lot, especially recently.  I think it may be a lot easier to write poetry if you cannot recognize good writing - like you can just dash it off and then dash more off.  Many times I start writing something and then think - this is trash - and can't find the words to say it in a way that isn't trash if that makes sense.

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