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Cubism  Imagism

Cubism  Imagism. A New Way of Seeing  A New School of Writing. Cubism. Looking at a single object from multiple perspectives and showing all of those perspectives on a single canvas.

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Cubism  Imagism

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  1. Cubism  Imagism A New Way of Seeing  A New School of Writing

  2. Cubism Looking at a single object from multiple perspectives and showing all of those perspectives on a single canvas.

  3. Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. -Jacques Lipchitz

  4. 13 Ways of Looking At a Blackbird By Wallace Stevens

  5. What’s going on in your stanza? -speaker (1st/2nd/3rd) -scene (imagery) -perspective (tense, distance) -overall effect

  6. I. Among twenty snowy mountains The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird The first stanza is written in third person. It seems to “set the stage” for the rest of the stanzas by opening with a snowy mountain landscape before zooming in on the blackbird. The contrasting imagery of the white snow and the blackbird makes the bird the focus of our attention. In fact, we get so “close” to the blackbird, we actually end not on his body but in his eye.

  7. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.

  8. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime.

  9. V A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.

  10. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

  11. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadows of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause.

  12. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?

  13. VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

  14. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles.

  15. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

  16. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds.

  17. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

  18. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

  19. Use the structure of your stanza to write a perspective of the following object.

  20. I Among twenty snowy mountains The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. I Among twenty lunar hills The only waving thing Was the flag of America.

  21. Imagism devoted to "clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images."

  22. 1) To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.

  23. 2) To create new rhythms–as the expression of new moods–and not to copy old rhythms, which merely echo old moods.  We do not insist upon “free-verse” as the only method of writing poetry.  We fight for it as for a principle of liberty.  Webelieve that the individuality of a poet may often be better expressed in free-verse than in conventional forms.  In poetry a new cadence means a new idea.

  24. 3) To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.  It is not good art to write badly of aeroplanes and automobiles, nor is it necessarily bad art to write well about the past.  We believe passionately in the artistic value of modern life, but we wish to point out that there is nothing so uninspiring nor so old-fashioned as an aeroplane of the year 1911.

  25. 4) To present an image (hence the name: “Imagist”).  We are not a school of painters, but we believe that poetry should render particulars exactly and not deal in vague generalities, however magnificent and sonorous.  It is for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk the real difficulties of his art.

  26. 5) To produce poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred nor indefinite.

  27. 6) Finally, most of us believe that concentration is of the very essence of poetry.

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