1. Imagery
What is imagery?
Poetry

2. Quick Write:
The next four slides will display an image. Write down, in as much detail as possible, what you see. Don’t forget about the five senses!

3. Image #1

4. Image #2

5. Image #3

6. Image #4

7. Imagist Poetry
“Imagist poetry aimed to replace muddy abstractions with exactness of observed detail, precised metaphors, and economy of language.” “A poem aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images”

8. “The Red Wheelbarrow”
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. William Carlos Williams

9. “This is Just to Say”
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams

10. ¨In a Station of the Metro¨
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound

11. “Morning at the Window”
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids sprouting despondently at area gates. The brown waves of fog toss up to me . Twisted faces from the bottom of the street, And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts. An aimless smile that hovers in the air and vanishes along the level of the roofs. T.S Eliot

12. “The City”
In the morning the city Spreads its wings Making a song In stone that sings. In the evening the city Goes to bed Hanging lights Above its head. Langston Hughes

13. “The Toaster”
A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread. I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one, He hands them back when he sees they are done. William Jay Smith