ADELAIDE CRAPSEY imaginista

Imagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language, to create an image in the reader’s mind. An imagist would keep things simple, and not use imagery other than specific sensory details. Wordless lines,indelible impressions with imagination set free to flower in the mind’s eye.Images rather than words remain,colour & space released,set apart,the extra from the ordinary,a moment seen and then heard. Adelaide Crapsey The apex For me in the imagist genre A well travelled lass named Adelaide Innovative and never staid, Unmarried,single but no old maid- A short life,latterly full of pain, Her epitaph,the American cinquain. For the lovely Adelaide Crapsey a long life was not to be. In syllable,two,four,six eight&two her cinquain made imagism anew To the heart of the matter windblown by gusty amazements a richness and complexity fine and delicate the beauty of verse speech by ‘ear’ &reason tested not in arrogance but humility & subtlety of form Questions alluring in novelty foreshadowed by conscious perception Far and leisured discerned by a prosody of rhythm The contrast of speech appears musical & temporal in the listener’s ear