Go in fear of abstractions. Don’t retell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose. Don’t think any intelligent person is going to be deceived when you try to shirk all the difficulties of the unspeakably difficult art of good prose by chopping your composition into line lengths. How is the idea expressed in the quotation consistent with the objectives of imagist poets? Imagist poets use abstract language to present powerful images. Imagist poets create poems with specific rhyme schemes and meters. Imagist poets present powerful images using precise, direct language. Imagist poets base their work on well-written, eloquent prose.