Modern Poems

Modernist Poems

Modernism

Modernism was a movement in the arts in the first half of the twentieth century that rejected traditional values and techniques, and emphasized the importance of individual experience.

• Characteristics of Modernist Poems

• Modern Poems....
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• "The Embankment"
• In this poem man wants to  die because he doesn't bear himself or may be he wants to hide himself. In the poem I could find some symbols.

Symbols... 

   Blankets-protection 

Gold heels -prostitute 

Street 

2.Darkness

                     " I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole,

                        A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.

                          I look at it , and pass on."

My point of view is that  Darkness connected with death and something happening bad. Here I could  say that Speaker would  feel depression. As a part of depression Speaker face mental illness so that speaker don't like to see shining of stars but likes to see light. So that I have to say that this sky may be gives the feeling of boghole. In this poem I could find some symbols like a... 

Darkness 

Boghole 

Silver Ribbon :- Mental illness

3."Image" by Edward storer 

We could not  bound  in one certain idea about any Image. But  here may be the Image of Sorrowful condition and everything looks like varnished. I could say that imagine situation is become like as land of desert with full moon light.Here some symbols like a... 

Moon.

Pyre

Peat smoke 

4."In station in Metro"

 This poem  based on imagination As the title suggested the image of Metro-station. There are crowded people and everyone rushing. This poem has completed in only 2 lines. In the poem Faces are compared with the petal of the black and wet bough. It means that after the rain when branches becomes black. Here I found some point like as,

 Apparition :-  Ghost, Imagery

 Petals :- Flowers, 

 Black and Wet Bough

5."The Pool" by H.D.Hilda

  Writer has visited the river and pool. Pool is symbolically used for joined two shore of the river and rottenness . River is interpret something discovery because later on he finds something. 

* Sea :-Fish :- Lover
* Net :-  Marriage, Love
* Banded :- Wings

6 " Insouciance " by Richard Aldington:-

* Imagination & Metaphor:-
  Dreary Trenches, 
Flock of Doves, 
White winged dove

7.Morning at the window.

 My view about this poem writer watched terrible sight out side from the window at early morning. Writer  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. They have not good clothe. 

Symbols
 Basement
* Trampled edges
* Damp Soul
* Twisted faces

8.The Red Wheelbarrow.

 The most divisive poems ever written, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ has variously been viewed as the epitome of Imagist practice and as barely ‘poetry’ at all. It first appeared in Williams’s 1923 volume Spring and All, a book which combined free verse with pieces written in prose.

Symbols..

* Red Wheelbarrow

* White Chicken

9."Anecdote of Jar"

First published in 1919, this is one of Stevens’s best-known short poems. It appeared in his first volume of poems and has been baffling critics and readers ever since…

* Jar :- Art, 

* Bush :- Recreation, Wilderness

10."I" by E.E.Cummings

This poem appeared in 1958 in Cummings’ collection 95 Poems, so it’s really a late modernist work. Although it’s nine lines long, it only contains four words – cleverly arranged so that ‘a leaf falls’ appears parenthetically within the word ‘loneliness’. Richard S. Kennedy, Cummings’ biographer, called it ‘the most delicately beautiful literary construct that Cummings ever created’.

Symbols..
 leaf

 loneliness

10.Modernist Poems Thinking Activity......