Imagism allowed poetry to be short and sweet in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The shortness of the poems and the lines were something that had been seen before but never really talked about. In "In A Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound, the poem contains only two lines. It talks of the faces and the people and abruptly stops. This shortness shocks the reader and makes the reader re-read the poem to gain more insight as well as think more intellectually about what the people in the poem might look like and so on. It opens a whole new idea for the imagination of the reader to grow. In "The Pike" by Amy Lowell, the poem itself is a little longer but the lines are short. The descriptions are not as in depth as poems before 1910 and for about ten years this type of writing will continue.