Well, it didn't take long for the Imagists to abandon Imagism having recognised its limitations. And yet, I'd contend that it was a necessary corrective to a poetry that was over-dependent on trivial analogy.
By chance have been looking at my old copy of Gaston Bachelard. Poetry by way of phenomenology, revery. I think Bachelard orients himself not toward "the thing itself", but toward "the image itself". Not the analogy but the pre-verbal experience.
Well, it didn't take long for the Imagists to abandon Imagism having recognised its limitations. And yet, I'd contend that it was a necessary corrective to a poetry that was over-dependent on trivial analogy.
It certainly helped shake up all the dead sing-song metaphors of the fin-de-siècle.
Which was the specific context of its emergence.
By chance have been looking at my old copy of Gaston Bachelard. Poetry by way of phenomenology, revery. I think Bachelard orients himself not toward "the thing itself", but toward "the image itself". Not the analogy but the pre-verbal experience.