ENGLISH 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: The Waste Land, Imagism, Kenneth Goldsmith
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Williams" poems all in a single volume, 1923, called spring and all. Can understand it as a concerted response to the waste land (1921), which williams called a great catastrophe - eliot had handed poetry back to the academics, x available to wider public. There is a constant barrier tw the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact w/ the world. If there is an ocean, it is here . Williams wants poetry to be accessible and direct, provide concrete experience. Poems in the volume didn"t have titles. Pound and his buddies agreed upon 3 principles: Don"t use any word that doesn"t contribute to presentation of the thing. Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, x metronome. Image presents intellectual/emot complex in an instant of time. Pound"s in a station of the metro classic imagist poem. Could imagine a silent period after depends," then upon a red wheel barrow .
