what is an oread
For Imagists, less is more. Oread is one of H.D.'s most famous and most Imagist-y poems. It's short, intense, and it creates one heck of an image in your brain. Imagist poems are all about what Pound referred to as the direct treatment of the thing (source). In other words, an Imagist poem gets right to the heart of the matter. No flowery language, no fancy rhyme schemes. Just the thing itself. In Oread, there are actually two things: the land, and the sea. But there's not much else, and that's exactly how an Imagist poem should be.