Imagism began as a reaction to the abstract language and themes of romanticism and the Victorian era. According to Ezra Pound, who is considered the founder of this movement, the tenets of imagist poetry consisted of “treating a thing in a direct manner,” avoiding redundancy in language, and experimenting with rhyme and rhythm.
To accomplish these ideals of imagism, writers of this movement used simple language. They chose their words carefully and used language as a means to convey and describe a precise moment in time, which is evidenced in Pound’s economical use of words in his two-line poem “In a Station of the Metro.”
The imagists also experimented with new rhythms to create new moods. For example, read this excerpt from "The Great Figure" by William Carlos Williams:
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
Note how the short lines and lack of punctuation in the poem help to create the mood of urgency, which you would relate with the movement of the fire truck. Also notice that the poem is in free verse. Most imagist poets wrote in free verse, and their poems followed a natural rhythm, going against the consistent meters and flowery language of the romantics. The imagist poets tried to depict the images of the objects that they wrote about in the most real and factual ways, and to describe things as they were. Imagists didn’t write to beautify or elevate objects, as seen in how William Carlos Williams describes mundane everyday objects like a red wheelbarrow and a white chicken in his poem “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
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me 2 I don't really know about games tho tell me if I wasn't video games tho
Explanation:
a game I recently played was fortnight it's basically about surviving till the end and winning all you have to do is hide its really intertaing I could play it for years. my friends got me to play it and now I'm addicted. one thing I liked about the game is that it's basically testing your survival skills and one thing I hate are the sweaty soccer players.
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In many houses the Prussian officer ate at the same table with the family.
... in the house both chatted freely, and each evening the German remained a little longer warming himself at the hospitable hearth<em>. </em>
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Explanation:
The excerpt you were given is the following:
At the end of a short time, once the first terror had subsided, calm was again restored. In many houses the Prussian officer ate at the same table with the family. He was often well-bred, and, out of politeness, expressed sympathy with France and repugnance at being compelled to take part in the war. This sentiment was received with gratitude; besides, his protection might be needful some day or other. By the exercise of tact the number of men quartered in one's house might be reduced; and why should one provoke the hostility of a person on whom one's whole welfare depended? Such conduct would savor less of bravery than of fool- hardiness. And foolhardiness is no longer a failing of the citizens of Rouen as it was in the days when their city earned renown by its heroic defenses. Last of all-final argument based on the national politeness—the folk of Rouen said to one another that it was only right to be civil in one's own house, provided there was no public exhibition of familiarity with the foreigner. Out of doors, therefore, citizen and soldier did not know each other; but in the house both chatted freely, and each evening the German remained a little longer warming himself at the hospitable hearth.
The lines that show how friendly relations between French and German people remained despite the war are the following:
<em>I</em><em>n many houses the Prussian officer ate at the same table with the family.</em>
<em>... in the house both chatted freely, and each evening the German remained a little longer warming himself at the hospitable hearth. </em>
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During the war, in which Germany invaded France, the French had to take in German officers and decided to offer them their hospitality. They fed them well and treated them as guests, building a peaceful relationship despite the war.
