Deep Image

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Deep Image is a mid-20th-century American poetic movement emphasizing vivid, often surreal imagery to evoke deep psychological and emotional resonance.

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Deep Image canonical 1
Deep Image poetry 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetic movement
aimsTo evoke deep psychological resonance
evoke emotional resonance
associatedWith Charles Simic
David Ignatow
Donald Hall
Galway Kinnell
James Wright
linked to: James Wright (poet)

Louis Simpson
Mark Strand
Robert Bly
W. S. Merwin
William Stafford
contrastsWith confessional poetry
formalist poetry
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception influential in late 20th-century American poetry
emphasizes concrete sensory detail
emotional intensity
interior psychological states
intuitive connections over rational argument
field American poetry
genre poetry
hasConcept dreamlike associative logic
image as vehicle of unconscious meaning
mythic and archetypal motifs
hasKeyText Body Rags
Silence in the Snowy Fields
The Branch Will Not Break
The Lice
hasLanguage English
inception 1950s
1960s
influencedBy Jungian psychology
imagism
surrealism
symbolist poetry
literaryApproach indirect expression of emotion through image
minimal exposition or explanation
use of leaps and associative transitions
movementPeriod mid-20th century
relatedTo American postwar poetry
deep image theory
modernist poetry
postmodern American poetry
stylisticFocus surreal imagery
symbolic imagery
vivid imagery

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James Wright movement Deep Image
subject linked to: James Wright (poet)
James Arlington Wright movement Deep Image poetry
linked to: Deep Image