Modernist poem

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It's me kinnari Halvadiya and today I bring for uh something new which related with our Thinking Activity ... So here I'm going put a link as the part of Reference  Click here... 

So let's start the task first we have to coin out the term MODERNISM... 

Modernism is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

As per mine point of view Modernism doesn't mean something contemporary which talk about modern fashion, culture and something new it's call modernism. Another way i just wanna  say that modernism is a opposite side of tradition. It means to Broken all the culture, traditions it's call modernism. 

Here I'm going to interpret the poems... 

 

While we read the poem and going to analys the lyrics or stanza... We are facing the same problem or situation as we watching in this GIF. As I'm using the metaphor of GIF to understand the situation or a multi thoughts. We faced many imaginary, symbols and metaphor as well. So let's analys the poems as the using of IMAGINARY, SYMBOLS AND METAPHOR. 

Some Characteristic of Modernism:-

- Individual Perspective came in the existence.

- Stream of consciousness seemed.

- Experiments became necessary.

- Development of Science and Politics.

- Influence of Marxism

- Art for life's sake.

- Loss of Faith.

- Passion for Humanity.

- Increased more questions against...

Very Short Modernist Poems:-

1) " The Embankment" by T.E.Hulme:-

 

Thomas Ernest Hulme was influential poet and thinker of twentieth century. He revolutionized the way English poetry approached issues of rhyme,meter and imagery. He was an aesthetic philosopher and “father of Imagism”. " The Embankment" is one of the best known for poems. This poem has completed into 7 lines.

 The starting line of poem says it is fantasy of fallen gentleman on a cold, bitter night. Normally in west...the nights of winters are terrible with freezing cold. The gentleman is fallen and he himself admits that once he enjoyed the life but now he has to face hard life of poor people. People who don’t have basic needs like food, cloths, shelter. So the old man asking God to have some mercy and make blanket of sky which he can wrap and can have warmth in cold. The stars are not beautiful in this poem. To poet it seems stars have eaten blanket. “Star eaten blanket”, “Fallen gentleman” are modern metaphor. 

* Embankment:- Hopeless people

* Gold Heels :- Ambition, Prostitution

* Blanket :- Shelter, Hide, Protection

2) " " by Joseph Campbell:-

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.

Campbell was an Irish poet writing a similar kind of poetry to Hulme at around same time. Poetry doesn't come much more understated than this. This poem has completed into only 4 lines. The title itself reflects the dark shade. Darkness gives us an image of downfall. 

Silver Ribbon :- Mental illness

3)" Image " by Edward Storer:-

Edward Storer was clearly influenced by Japanese form such as the haiku, This poem has completed into only 3 Lines also.

poet used the symbol of "white moon" as it connects the heart of two lover, but poet here used it in opposite side that it burns lovers and they can't chaste with each other. Their loneliness is there though they are together. So, here we can interpret that modernist think that we all are alone in crowd.

* Moon :- As a land of Desert with full moon

* Pyre   :- Bad happening, Death, Drought,Loneliness

4) " In a station of the Metro":-

Pond Ezra arrived at these two lines after wrote the whole poem... These two lines he picked from longer Darft. This poem's structure against the Victorian poems. poet use very short poem like the metro speed. Here, poet used very good metaphor "Petals on wet black bought". poem suggest the busy life of city people they have not time to face each other like city life is lifeless. In short this poem is about the loneliness in crowd. 

5)The pool- by Hilda Dolittle

"Are you alive?

I touched you

you quiver trembling like a sea fish

I cover you with my net

What are you banded one?

 H.D. was one of the main practitioners of imagine, the short-lived poetic movement which pound founded in 1912. " The Pool" is one of H.D.'s finest short poems about coming face-to-face with her reflation in the waters of rock-pool. Here I interpret that speaker 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. This poem has completed into 5 lines only.

6) "Insouciance"- By Richard Aldington

"In and out of the dreary trenches

Trudging cheerily under the stars

I make for myself little poems

Delicate as a flock of dovesin

Thy fly away like white-winged Doves.

In this poem the poet represents that how people are living their life insouciance way with carelessness. They try to express their feeling in literature as poet says "I make for myself little poem" the way of living is with no excitement "In and out of the dreary trenches" but though all are walking on their path with such cheer, the reference of "White-winged Doves" is used for modern culture of living life and feeling of isolation is there.River is interpret something discovery because later on he finds something. This poem has completed into 5 lines . 

7) “Morning at the Window” by T.S Eliot

They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,

And along the trampled edges of the street

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids

Sprouting despondently at area gates.

The brown waves of fog toss up to me     

Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,

And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts

An aimless smile that hovers in the air

And vanishes along the level of the roofs.

8) " The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams:-

  

It is most difficult poem for understanding. We can't say properly that this poem about for that.This poem is best example of Imagination and metaphor. " The Red Wheelbarrow " Which used in farming and for transferring something. Here poet try to used rural imagery. Here In the poem bird of White chicken comes near for look beauty of wheelbarrow. This poem has completed into 8 lines.

9) " Anecdote of the jar " by Wallace Stevens:-

10) " l " by E.E.Cummings:-

"A leaf falls with loneliness"

 This is very short and one line poem. Still it tells two major metaphors such as loneliness and fall. Here loneliness can be seen as lack of empathy. Loneliness is indicating something about individuality. In a way, the tone of poem seems tragic.