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Which of the following is not true of Imagist poetry ?

  • A.The poet spreads his language across the page as though language were sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of 'image'.
  • B.The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as well as an expression of imagination
  • C.The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it, and like a scientist does not deal in emotions.
  • D.The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image as against the symbol which resorts to reduction to simplicity.

Answer: C

The statement that is not true of Imagist poetry is the third, that the imagist like a scientist does not deal in emotions. The imagists aimed at direct treatment of the thing and economy of words, but their poems were meant to present an 'intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time', as Pound put it, so they did deal in emotion.

The other statements describe the image as a vision and the artist's use of the image as against the symbol, which are accepted accounts of Imagism.

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