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Some great examples of Imagism I have come across. Of course, aside from the famous “Station of the Metro”:
- Erat Hora
- Albâtre

Stanza I of “The Plunge”:

I would bathe myself in strangeness:
These comforts heaped upon me, smother me!
I burn, I scald so for the new,
New friends, new faces,
Places!
Oh to be out of this,
This that is all I wanted
-save the new.

Most people will find things that they like in this book, and things that they dislike; only persons who like poetry and have trained themselves to like poetry will like it all. And of such persons there are not many
T.S. Eliot (From The Introduction)