Week 4: Imagism

The poetic revolution provoked by Eliot and Pound, as exemplified in the theory and practice of imagism. Req'd reading: poems on handout.

The Imagists

Manifesto - (Poetry I, 1913)

cf again: Melopoeia, Phanopoeia and Logopoeia

the "duree": Bergson's word for the individual moment of minimal consciousness
the "objective correlative": TS Eliot's term for the image (his essay on Hamlet)
- fully adequate for the emotion that is invoked.

Pound's article on vorticism, 1914. "Vortex"

A picture as somewhere between a thing and a thought. As the split (the gap) between the SD/SR and [REF]? Poetic communication: why? So images can be apprehended as intended.

Cf my idea from a while ago - mapping the sine curves accurately from one person to another...

Tenor/Vehicle/Ground
Tenor: the thing
Ground: the basis of comparison
A good metaphor: the tenor in relation to the vehicle, in the context of the ground.