(1) Imagist poetry is a style of poetry that had been promoted by the Imagists, first led by Ezra Pound then Amy Lowell and H. Doolittle, during Imagism movement, that stresses “a. direct treatment of the ‘thing’, whether subjective or objective; b. to use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation; c. as regarding rhythm to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.”

(2) The Imagism movement though has deeply influenced the course of modernist poetry in English, there shortcomings as Wallace Stevens suggests “not all objects are equal”, its demand for hardness, clarity and precision and its insistence on fidelity to appearance coupled with its rejection of irrelevant emotions.