Methods of Imagery (Imagism) in the Poems of Fereydoun Moshiri

Hasanzademirali, Abdollah; Koochakpour, Farzaneh

doi:10.22091/jls.2026.14874.1768

Methods of Imagery (Imagism) in the Poems of Fereydoun Moshiri

Document Type : Rhetoric

Authors

¹ Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

² Master's degree in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

10.22091/jls.2026.14874.1768

Abstract

The literary movement of Imagism was one of the major and influential currents of early twentieth‑century Western literature, emerging in reaction to the verbosity, rhetorical expression, generalization, and excessive emotionalism of preceding literary schools. The theoretical roots of this movement can be traced to the ideas of Thomas Ernest Hulme, and it reached maturity in the works of poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Imagism reduced poetry to the recording of a “pure moment” of human perception—a moment that, through concrete imagery, compressed language, and the elimination of verbal excess, is directly and immediately impressed upon the reader’s mind. By emphasizing clear, tangible, multisensory images and a relative liberation from traditional metrical patterns, Imagism paved the way for a fundamental transformation in modern Western poetry. The impact of this movement is also observable in contemporary Persian literature through the translation of modern works and the developments of New Persian Poetry, and a number of Iranian poets have been influenced by its principles, each in their own distinctive way.

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