What Is Hd's Storm Modernism
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Admirably Apt Illustration of Imagist Poetry
H.D.’s Storm
Tara Porczek
Modernism
ENGL- 3222/6
Professor Candida Rifkind
October 27th 2009
Tara Porczek
Modernism
ENGL- 3222/6
Professor Candida Rifkind
October 27th 2009
The Modernist movement was a period of new ideas. In art, particularly poetry, modernism inspired new and revolutionary ideas, forming distinct poetic groups. Through modernism, came Imagism. Imagists rejected traditional poetry such as romantic and futurist and focused on the notion that less is more. Prominent imagist poet Ezra Pound believed, “It is better to present on Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works” (Caws, 356). Imagism was a movement of poets …show more content…
The entirety H.D.’s poem, Storm, is two running sentences sectioned into two parts. Enjambment allows for natural flow and melodic verse without the use of rhyme. Part one depicts a setting of trees which are in the process of destruction. The source of this destruction is not stated although it is inferred that we the reader is the one who is inflicting this damage. “You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch” (H.D., 1-2). With the use of you, H.D. puts the entire weight of the poem onto the readers’ shoulders. Part two opens with “You burden the trees with black drops” (H.D., 6-7). Carrying on from Part one is the notion that we the cause of destruction inflicted upon this natural being. The poem goes beyond descriptive nature and intimately tells of an individual leaf which has been broken off of a branch. From lines 9 to 13, this leaf is shown abuse imposed by the storm. The final line morphs living with non living when H.D. writes,”...a green stone” (H.D., 13). The separation between Parts one and two individualise the aspect of personal and impersonal view on the subject of the storm. The principles which guide this organization are the gradual understanding of a displaced leaf from a wide perspective down to an intimate view broadening our understanding. H.D. effectively crafted her poem to create a flow without the need use of rhyme. The rhythmic composition of this poem furthers the imagist’s idea of poetry should be composed in sequence of the musical phrase, not in a sequence of metronome (Caws,
Admirably Apt Illustration of Imagist Poetry
H.D.’s Storm
Tara Porczek
Modernism
ENGL- 3222/6
Professor Candida Rifkind
October 27th 2009
Tara Porczek
Modernism
ENGL- 3222/6
Professor Candida Rifkind
October 27th 2009
The Modernist movement was a period of new ideas. In art, particularly poetry, modernism inspired new and revolutionary ideas, forming distinct poetic groups. Through modernism, came Imagism. Imagists rejected traditional poetry such as romantic and futurist and focused on the notion that less is more. Prominent imagist poet Ezra Pound believed, “It is better to present on Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works” (Caws, 356). Imagism was a movement of poets …show more content…
The entirety H.D.’s poem, Storm, is two running sentences sectioned into two parts. Enjambment allows for natural flow and melodic verse without the use of rhyme. Part one depicts a setting of trees which are in the process of destruction. The source of this destruction is not stated although it is inferred that we the reader is the one who is inflicting this damage. “You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch” (H.D., 1-2). With the use of you, H.D. puts the entire weight of the poem onto the readers’ shoulders. Part two opens with “You burden the trees with black drops” (H.D., 6-7). Carrying on from Part one is the notion that we the cause of destruction inflicted upon this natural being. The poem goes beyond descriptive nature and intimately tells of an individual leaf which has been broken off of a branch. From lines 9 to 13, this leaf is shown abuse imposed by the storm. The final line morphs living with non living when H.D. writes,”...a green stone” (H.D., 13). The separation between Parts one and two individualise the aspect of personal and impersonal view on the subject of the storm. The principles which guide this organization are the gradual understanding of a displaced leaf from a wide perspective down to an intimate view broadening our understanding. H.D. effectively crafted her poem to create a flow without the need use of rhyme. The rhythmic composition of this poem furthers the imagist’s idea of poetry should be composed in sequence of the musical phrase, not in a sequence of metronome (Caws,