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Essay on Initial Reaction to Imagism and Imagist Poetry
It is said that people can create art in their unique way to express themselves. William Carlos Williams tried to capture the direct image of the object and cloud out its surroundings. He attempted to focus the poem on the subject in order to eliminate any irrelevant responses from its surroundings. Through language and imagery, William Carlos Williams uses certain objects in the world that would be poetic no matter how directly they are presented. He accomplishes this using imagism.
In writing Spring and All Williams learned that the new art does not evade artistic ordering to preserve naturalness, but on the contrary elevates design as a primary end of art.
“And we thought to escape rime
by imitation of the senseless
unarrangement of wild things —“
“The stupidest rime of all —
Rather, Hibiscus,
let me examine”
Williams believes that every person’s “action, life, and stability of truth” is based upon the useful knowledge of things rather than the illusory surface of actuality. This is the main reason why Williams focuses so much on this “thing.”................
