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ADELAIDE CRAPSEY imaginista
Imagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language, to create an image in the reader’s mind. An imagist would keep things simple, and not use imagery other than specific sensory details.
Wordless lines,indelible impressions with imagination set free to flower in the mind’s eye.Images rather than words remain,colour & space released,set apart,the extra from the ordinary,a moment seen and then heard.
Adelaide Crapsey The apex For me in the imagist genre
A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.
For the lovely Adelaide Crapsey
a long life was not to be.
In syllable,two,four,six eight&two
her cinquain made imagism anew
To the heart of the matter
windblown
by gusty amazements
a richness and complexity
fine and delicate
the beauty of verse
speech by ‘ear’
&reason tested
not in arrogance
but humility
& subtlety of form
Questions
alluring in novelty
foreshadowed
by conscious perception
Far and leisured
discerned by a prosody
of rhythm
The contrast of
speech appears musical
&
temporal
in the listener’s ear
Copyright ©
Brian Strand
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