The Objectivists were a group of 20th-century modernist poets, especially Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and Basil Bunting, who favored precision, clear observation, and an honest presentation of experience. Influenced by Imagism and by poets such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, they treated the poem as a made object, carefully shaped rather than emotionally ornate.
Example
The cup on the sill
holds one cold ray of morning.
No symbol, only glass,
water, and light.