意象主义是发生于1909-1917间的一场英美诗歌运动。他们反对传统的诗歌创作,强调任意选择题材,自由地创作自己的韵律,采用白话口语并表现出坚定、清晰与凝聚的意象。本文讨论了意象产生的背景,原则及影响,进而阐明了它是现代诗的先河。 Imagism is an English-American poetry movement that took place between 1909-1917. They objected to traditional poetic writing, stressing arbitrarily chosen themes, freely creating their own rhythms, adopting vernacular speech and showing firm, clear and cohesive images. This article discusses the background, principle and influence of image creation, and then clarifies that it is the first of modern poetry.