Although the work in his first book is rich with form and form experiment, his second; " Cerddi Rhydd " ( Free Verses, published 1961 ) dispenses with all formal devices and is made up of prose proems in the manner of Symbolism ( he translated a selection of French Symbolist poets into Welsh ) and of a kind of Imagism, Bowen always thought of himself as a Sacramentalist and believed the images in his poems communicated as signs.