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Concrete imagery school

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A poetic movement emphasizing direct, precise presentation of sensory images

Detailed Definition
The concrete imagery school refers to the early 20th-century poetic movement, particularly Imagism, which championed the use of precise, sensory-based images as the primary means of poetic expression; rejecting Victorian vagueness and rhetorical excess, poets like H.D., Ezra Pound, and F.S. Flint advocated “direct treatment of the ‘thing’” and economy of language, believing that clear images could convey complex emotions and ideas more effectively than abstract statements.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Imagist movement led by Pound, H.D., and Aldington emphasized direct treatment of the “thing”; poets rejected Victorian abstraction for precise visual rendering; the school championed free verse and economy of language; their manifestos demanded clarity, concision, and concrete imagery over ornament.
Additional Notes
The Concrete imagery school refers to the early 20th-century Imagist movement that championed “direct treatment of the ‘thing’” and rejected ornate diction; emphasized clarity, brevity, and sensory precision.
Also Known As
Imagist movement concrete image school precise imagery movement early modernist imagery group Imagism
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