Versecraft

Imagism 3: The Thing Itself


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Topics discussed in this episode include:

 

-"A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts By An Imagiste" by Ezra Pound

-A ruinous misunderstanding of meter and music

-"Intellectual-emotional complex" and unified sensibility

-"The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" by Ernest Fenollosa

-The ideogrammatic method

-Kiru, Wabi-Sabi, and Mono no Aware (see this fascinating wiki-page on Japanese aesthetics)

-"In A Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

-"Fan-Piece For Her Imperial Lord" by Ezra Pound

-The Objective Correlative

-"Oread" by H.D.

-"The Pool" by H.D.

-"Des Imagistes" anthology

-Vorticism vs. "Amy-gism"

-"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

-"This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams

-"Arrival" by William Carlos Williams

-Expressionist painter Egon Schiele

-"The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams

-Objectivism, Projectivism, Deep Imagism

-"The Diver" by Peter Vertacnik, and his book, "The Nature of Things Fragile"

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Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

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