5.
Which of the following is NOT true of Imagist poetry ?
A:
The image is itself an instrument of vision or lens, as well as an expression of imagination.
B:
The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it and like a scientist does not deal in emotions.
C:
The artist as scientist focuses vision through image as against the symbol which resorts to reduction to simplicity.
D:
The poet spreads language across the page as though language were sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of image.
The answer is:
C