What Is Poetic Imagery?
Dana Gioia discusses how imagery operates in poetry.
September 22, 2021
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In this video I discuss how imagery operates in poetry, citing Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes,” H.D.’s “Oread,” Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” an untitled haiku by Buson, Lee Gurga’s “Visitor’s Room,” Wallace Stevens’s “Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock,” and Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning.” — Dana Gioia
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