Vorticism was a short-lived early 20th-century avant-garde movement in British art and writing, closely linked to Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. In poetry, it favored sharp, compressed language, bold images, and a sense of concentrated energy rather than sentimental feeling or decorative description.
The movement sought to capture the intense force at the center of modern life, often through hard-edged, experimental style.
Example
Steel wind whirls
through the bridge's bones-
river, engine, and spark
spinning in one hard bright center.