April 9, 2024

Image & Poetry

 

Images are a crucial component of poems. 


“Images are not concepts. They do not withdraw into their meaning. Indeed, they tend to go beyond their meaning….If the image that is present does not make us think of one that is absent, if an image does not determine an abundance—an explosion of unusual images, then there is no imagination.”


Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher, 1884-1962l 



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