And it is an illuminating fact that among poets and men conversant with many poetic idioms, imagism is rarely misconceived. |
Within a remarkably short span of time they cycled through a variety of literary schools and trends, ranging from neo-romanticism to imagism to surrealism. |
The first two stanzas of the above are very close to imagism. |
I don't think of myself as a contemporary of surrealism, or dadaism, or imagism, or the other respected tomfooleries of literature, no? |
But there is good verbalism, distinct from lyricism or imagism, and in this Laforgue is a master. |
Yet these pieces' mixture of lyricism, imagism, meditation and narrative are all hallmarks of the prose poem tradition. |