![]() ![]() ![]() Emily Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is a thing with feathers” may serve as an excellent example of everything discussed above. While the image itself is easy to discern, there is still more to it than immediately meets the eye – in other words, the image-centered poetry is simple but not simplistic. At the same time, the fact of articulating the image in direct and straightforward language does not make such poetry shallow. Instead of the elaborate verse where images served as decorations illustrating the text’s main idea, the exacting visual image articulated with painstaking clarity became the poem’s essence – the idea itself. Reliance on clear language and direct visual images separated the works of the Imagists and Emily Dickinson from the late Victorian poetry. ![]()
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