He was laughed at by a friend, but logic was his as well as sentiment; an Italian savant maintained that the most beautiful combination of English sounds was cellar-door; no association of ideas here to help out! sensuous impression merely! the cellar-door is purely American".
In particular, the 'outward element' the bodily work provides the sensuous content or impressions out of which the conscious imagination generates ideas, constituting the 'total imaginative experience'(see Davies 2008 for more on this issue).
Characteristic poems that proffer Williams' fresh, direct impression of the sensuous world are the frequently anthologized "Lighthearted William," "By the Road to the Contagious Hospital," and "Red Wheelbarrow".
More sensuous than brazen, it made an impression, she recalled.
But if the prevailing idea of an archetype gives too strong an impression of fixity, the picture-language of fairytale is fluid and shapeshifting: a rose is not a rose, an apple not an apple; a princess or a villain signify far more than what they seem.
With such unfailing zeal, the overall impression he gives is of a mix of Western visitor archetypes: He might dress like an NGO worker, but when Hofmanis talks, he is all missionary.
The work left a lasting impression on me, especially your depictions of quaint villages of ethnic minorities and sensuous folksongs sung by village elders.
Assembled from scrap yard junk, his roughly cast sculptures, as archetypes of the age of technology, are neither smooth nor subtle in composition or impression.
More preferable, as archetypes go, is the goddess, with her ancient Grecian pedigree, her aloof demeanor suggesting self-possession and powers of divine intervention, her sensuous revelry in her own body.
