Class Minutes: March 9, 2010

Because Mrs. Wall is in Mexico, we have a subsitute, Ms. T. Our sub introduced imagism, a poetry movement that took place in the early 1900's in the United States and England. This type of poetry draws traditions from Japanese Haiku, focusing on precise words and concrete details to describe the poem's subject. They allow the words to speak for themselves; to speak for the images presented. These poems are straightforward and precise with a deeper meaning. We read "The Red Wheelbarrow," by William Carlos Williams, as well as "In a Station of the Metro," by the same poet, and "The Lonely Land," by A.J.M. Smith as examples. We were also asked to choose crayons from a box and write imagist poems based on the colour of our crayons. Then, we wrote the poems on a large poster in the same crayon, and Ms. T stapled it to the wall.