Thinking Activity : - Identify modern Images, metaphors - short modern poems
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Here I am going to sher my view upon this Activity. This task was about modernism and modernist poem. We have to find modernist symbol, metaphor and imagery form the very short poem.
Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide - scale and far reaching transformations in western society during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century. Modernism in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and sciences, were becoming I'll-fifty end to their tasks and outdated in the economic, social, and political element.
Some characteristics of modernism
1) Art of life's sake
2) passing for Humanity
3) Isolation
4) fragmentation
5) addressing inner thoughts of regular people
6) Religion and mysticism
7) Diction and style
8) Experiments became necessary.
1] "The Embankment " by T. E. Hulme
T. E. Hulme was influential poet and thinker in twentieth century. He Revolutionzed the way English poetry approached issues of rlyme, meter and imagery " The Embarkment" is one of the best know poem. The poem is about the homeless poor people and fallen gentleman reflects on his past, it is may be related to sexuality. This poem has complicated into seven lines. The poem then ends with the poem's speaker beseeching God to make a blanket of the star, sky so that the speaker's wish for warmth might be granted.
2] " Darkness" by joseph campbell
Joseph campbell was an Irish poet, American professor of literature. He writes similar kind of poetry to Humlet at around the same time though they were working independently of each other. Here title itself reflects some kind of the darkness. In the poem poet present view of night that how the sky has because dark without star and furies night. This poem has completed into four lines. According to my opinion darkness also connected with death and something happening bad.
3] " Image" by Edward storer
Edward storer was clearly influenced by Japanese from such as the haiku, this poem has completed into only three lines. The title suggest itself the image of Victorian age. Poem is depiction of forsaken lover thair way of living, they requires purity like moon.
4] "In a station of the metro" by Ezra pound
Ezra poud arrived at this two lines poem after writing a much longer draft which he than cut down, line by line, this poem's structure against the Victorian poems. Victorian used to write very short poem like the metro spreed. The lifeless people going for the daily routine. The crowd of people are like living dead ' petals' is used as metaphor for people and ' black bough' for a culture of living dead.
5] "The pool" by Hilda Doolittle
A poem is written by Hilda Doolittle. " H. D. Doolittle was an American poet, novelist and memorist, associated with the early 20th avant-garde images group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldimgton. The title pool" is also symbolize the stillness like water store in it which don't have flowness which is most important things in the life to flow from one to another.
6] " Insouciance" by Richard Aldimgton
Richard Aldimgton, born Edward Godfree Aldimgton was an English writer and poet. Aldimgton was known best for his first world war poetry.in this poem, poet compare his poems with dove. Here the words like ' Trudging and' cheerily' gives contrasting meaning. These words give the image of life where we are doing many things unwilling It looks he want to be free.
7] " Morning at the window by T. 'S. Eliot
This poem has completed into nine lines. It is an rhymed poem according to my point of view speaker watched terrible sight out side from the window at early morning. He saw poor condition of his country and people who lived on the pavement. They had not even enough food for eating and another side children played in mud.
8] "The Red wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
With four stanzas the poem describe in humongous details not just a wheel barrow but a whole scene, a moment. Stuck in time. William carols William was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In this poem we find metaphors like " red wheel barrow" and" white chicken "it represents craftsmanship of framer.
9]" Anecdote of the jar " by Wallace Steven
Wallace Steven was an American modernist poet. He won American modernist poet. He won the pulitzer prize for poetry doe his collected poems in 1955. This is a imaginative poem which exaggerate the picture of jar. Poet placed that jar upon hill, jar reminds us the Grecian urn of Keats. This poem solves the riddle by recognizing ng the unique differences between art and nature. Art my sometimes be more beautiful than nature but it cannot be as creative as the nature.
10] " I" E. E. Cumming
Cumming was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. Structure of poem also suggest fall by loneliness as many characters are separated from each other and for make a word they have to be together. It was creative poem with imagination. In the poem few lines but it's gives the feeling of loneliness. It's good idea. About one single leaf fall on the ground which make poem very interesting.
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