Name: Ruiz Mautino

Vorname: Arturo Florentino

Imagism
Imagism is commonly known as a poetic movement that took place in the early 20 th century,
mainly in London, around the figures of Ezra Pound, Thomas Ernest Hulme, Frank Stuart
Flint, Hilda Doolittle, among many others. It may be characterized by its strong position
against the Romantic paradigm, its defense of an economy of expression in poetry, alongside
with the influence, especially in the case of Pound, of Eastern and Occitan Poetic Traditions.
The following three rules, written by Ezra Pound, were published in the March issue of the
Poetry magazine in 1913, directed by Hilda Doolittle, regarding the main statements of
imagist poetics:
1. Direct treatment of the "thing", whether subjective or objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of
the metronome.
Imagism, rather than defining some concrete poetic topics, provides a certain way to display a
poetic image, summarizing an attitude towards language that resembles French Symbolism
(Mallarms condensed images). The relationship that it establishes between Language and the
World, moreover, has to do with one of the groundbreaking achievements of Modernism: the
rethinking of the creative role of language through the glass of a modern notion of the human
subject.