imagist

Examples

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• Amy Lowell and others among the Imagists had called for the whole poem, or at least a strophe.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Despite the expressed preference for metaphor over simile, Imagists frequently used similes.

  Academic text (2004)

• Williams appeared at first to be a minor camp-follower of the Imagists.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Yours approached the brilliance of the Master Imagists, which is a high achievement indeed.

  Fiction book (1992)

• And yet, the Imagists probably knew that rhetoric and poetics were reconcilable.

  Academic text (2004)

• Along with metaphor, Imagists also used similes, although they openly preferred metaphors.

  Academic text (2004)

• But Imagists like Fletcher seemed to have sensed that persuasion was very much an issue of comprehension.

  Academic text (2004)

• Of course, the following claim is made in the 1916 anthology's preface: "Imagists deal but little with similes, although much of their work is metaphorical."

  Academic text (2004)

• While Turner and Yeshayahu Shen highlight two tenets of cognitive metaphor theory, the Imagists seemed to have understood these tenets many decades ago.

  Academic text (2004)

• Pound often dismissed as "rhetoric" poetic diction that seemed too emotional or overwrought, but the Imagists did try to strike a balance between their use of figurative language in their own poems and their criticism of the figurative language of others.

  Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

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word-painter

vsimagist

• Literature

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A writer who uses strong, clear words to make scenes feel real

is part of a specific artistic movement that stresses clear visual imagery

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