Haiku ----> Imagism

IMAGISM:
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Pound's definition of the image was "that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." Pound defined the tenets of Imagist poetry as:

I. Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective.
II. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
III. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.

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Interesting stuff, especially when compared to the tenets of the ancient art of haiku, namely, that they bear an almost indentical resemblance. We're all familiar with the poem 'In a Station of the Metro.'

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

It's a modern haiku, on two lines, instead of three. I wonder if the Imagists knew that their movement had really started almost 1300 years earlier, in Japan, no less.

Just a short observation.