No Ideas But In Things

One group of Modern poets was called the Imagists. Imagism was a movement in the early 20^th century that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The imagists rejected the sentimental approaches of the classical Romantic writers. Imagists believed that poetry could be made purer by concentration the precise, clear, and unqualified image. They wanted to rid poetry of its prettiness, sentimentality, and artificiality. I think that there shouldn’t be a limitation on the subject matter of poetry, because I believe that poetry should be a way for people to express themselves, and they should be able to do without any restrictions. Poems today are written about everything. The subject matters are not limited, nor are the formats. Even though I think people should be able to write poetry in whichever way they want, I still think there should be sets of rules and standards made for poem, but people can choose whether or not they want to follow it. Poetry can be more fun when there’s a standard set on it, because poets can challenge themselves to express all their meanings in the limited format.