1. Bell Ringer 1/10
Please get out your Imagist Criteria List (the list we composed yesterday after reading “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste”).
What do you believe is the most important item on the list?
Decide with a partner and be able to explain yourself.
Pd. 1, 2, 7, 9

2. English III
EQ: How can we use strong and thorough textual evidence to support what imagist poetry says both explicitly and implicitly?
Agenda
Bell Ringer: Review Question
Agenda/EQ Notes
Imagist Poetry
Listing Imagist Criteria
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

3. The Innovators (Ezra Pound)
What historical events influenced the poetry the innovators wrote?
What made the writings of the innovators so different from poetry in the past?
What was Ezra Pound’s greatest contribution to American Poetry?

4. Imagism
Literary movement established in the early 1900s by Ezra Pound and other poets.
Concentrated on the direct presentation of images, or word pictures.
Poems expressed the essence of an object, person, or incident, without providing explanations.
Hoped to freeze a single moment in time and to capture the emotions of that moment.

5. Imagism
Used the language of everyday speech, carefully choosing each word.
Shied away from traditional poetic patterns, focusing on creating new, musical rhythms.
Strongly influenced by traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry (haiku and tanka).
Evoke an emotional response through the presentation of a single image or a pair of contrasting images.

6. Vocabulary
Complex: a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status.
Abstract: existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
Concrete: existing in a material or physical form; real or solid
Verse: writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
Prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure, "a short story in prose"
Philosophic: relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

7. Imagist Poetry Criteria List
Get back into your earlier groups of 3.
Each member should get a sheet of composition paper.
Create a list of criteria for Imagist poetry.
They can be either do’s or don’ts
Try to find at least 8 items
3 of those can be Mr. Flint’s rules.
We will finalize our list together

8. Imagist Poetry Criteria List
Direct treatment of the “thing”
Use no word that does not contribute to presentation (all words reveal something)
Compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not a metronome
The rhythm should flow from one line to the next
Give feelings of liberation or sudden growth
Use concrete images, no abstractions
Avoid writing philosophic poetry
Present the image, don’t describe
Use surprising rhyme
Find the exact word that will achieve your goal

9. The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
With your group members, read “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Using our list of Imagist Poetry Criteria, answer the following question:
Does Ezra Pound actually create the kind of poetry he describes in “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste?”
Write a thorough paragraph that answers the question.
Give at least 3 pieces of evidence from the poem (including explanation) to support your answer.
You will also need to use some material from “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste.”

10. Bell Ringer 1/10
Today we will be finishing our Holiday/Winter Story readings.
Cory
Kendra
Blakely
Marie

11. Creative Writing
EQ: How do authors use narrative techniques to convey a vivid picture of experiences, events, settings, and characters?
Agenda
Bell Ringer – Preparing Our Groups
Agenda/EQ
Story Sharing
Reading the Top 5
Pacing
Please be able to answer the following questions on Monday:
What is “pacing”?
When should you speed up and slow down your pacing?
How can you speed up and slow down your pacing?
Quiz on Monday