Imagination

= = "Only through the imagination is the advance of intelligence possible, to keep beside growing understanding."--Williams


 * Imagination** is the concept of a mode of perception in which we are intimate with our own experiences and a mode of action which offers that intimacy with others in the form of a rejuvenated art.

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=In Poetry=

William Carlos Williams
It is believed that T.S. Eliot's //The Waste Land// influenced Williams' 1923 book //Spring and All//. In //Spring and All//, Williams says, "Imagination is not to avoid reality, nor is it a description nor an evocation of objects or situations, it is to say that poetry does not tamper with the world but moves it--It affirms reality most powerfully and therefore, since reality needs no personal support but exists free from human action, as proven by science in the indestructibility of matter and of force, it creates a new object, a play, a dance which is not a mirror up to nature."

It is possible that when Williams says imagination, he means that it is something that lasts forever and has the potential to be good or evil. Judging by how Williams talks about imagination, it seems to be something that lasts forever, an "eternal moment." Although, when in context "eternal moment" could be referring to life: "To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone lived there is but a single force--the imagination." From this connection between "eternal moment" and imagination, it appears that the imagination makes up the moments of life. Williams goes on to draw a connection between prohibition and imagination that suggests imagination can be polluted and become evil: "The imagination, intoxicated by prohibitions, rises to drunken heights to destroy the world." Though, it could mean that imagination is fascinated with the potential it has to create chaos.

In the poem about the red wheelbarrow, a lot seems to depend upon the red wheelbarrow. A red wheelbarrow could be associated with children and childhood. Red wheelbarrows are used by children to play in or to help their parents garden. That being noted, childhood is what depends on a red wheelbarrow. The lines "glazed with rain/water" support this due to the lines referring to how much time has passed since a child has played with or used the wheelbarrow. The rain indicates sadness and that the child is growing up. As the child ages, he or she slowly stops using the wheelbarrow.

William Blake
William Blake lived from November 28th, 1757 to August 12th, 1827. Blake was known as a pioneer in English poetry, painting, and printmaking. Living in London for mostly his whole life, Blake was recognized as an icon in poetry and visual arts during the Romantic Age.

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Visual Art of William Blake

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