ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Imagism
14 Dec 2017
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Imagery: descriptive language that simply appeals to the senses visual/sight, auditory/hearing, tactile/touch, gustatory/taste, olfactory/smell, kinetic/motion, more complex bodily sensations such as pain and cold. Imagism: movement in the early twentieth century modernist poetry. Rejected sentimentality and lengthy descriptiveness of victorian poetry. Favours direct presentation of objects and experience, rejects elaborate rhetoric and ornament. Influences by chinese and japanese poetry, especially haiku ap. Ode on a grecian urn: this poem was written during the romanticism period- a time when people would reflect on physical objects, describing their exact emotions and feelings and the questions or ideas that it evokes. Thesis example: the development of sensory imagery from idyllic to undesirable in keats" ode to a. Grecian urn demonstrates the prevention of __________ when __________ is employed/present. A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: The use of personification and metaphor within these two lines portrays the misrepresentation of the love that the author wants to be conveyed.
