still considered a modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the modern poets of his time. The modern elements of his poetry are those of capitalism‚ the self-centeredness of the mordent man‚ the
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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writing style. E.E. Cummings was born on October 14th‚ 1894 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. In 1916‚ Cummings graduated with a master’s degree from Harvard University. During his studies‚ he was subject to many great writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. After working for five months as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I‚ he was captured by French authorities. He was accused on accounts of espionage. After the war‚ he settled into a life in which he bounced around from houses in rural
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Q. 1. Discuss W.B. Yeats as a modern poet. Answer:- William Butler Yeats‚ one of the modern poets‚ influences his contemporaries as well as successors‚ such as T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound and W.B. Auden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love‚ Irish Nationalism and mysticism‚ but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet he regrets for post-war modern
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English poetry in between two wars Introduction: The years between the two world wars (1919-1939) witnessed prolific poetic activity. It was a period when tradition and innovation went side by side. In the direction of innovation we can find such groups as the Imagists‚ Symbolists‚ and Surrealists working‚ whereas we also find some traditionalists fighting a last-ditch battle against the forces of change. However‚ most of the poets of the age combined tradition and innovation; and even the most
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was horrific‚ chaotic‚ and ultimately futile. Some modernists‚ notably T. S. Eliot‚ expressed a deep sense of loss and despair. However‚ others responded with a fresh sense of both the freedom and the responsibilities of the artist in a new age. Ezra Pound in particular envisaged the possibility of a new society to which artists would contribute meaningfully. Many modernists shared an ambitious‚ aspirational belief in the role and place of the artist in contemporary life‚ believing that art had replaced
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University. Eventually‚ he left the United States for Sorbonne‚ England and returned to Harvard to study some more and ended up back in England where he became under the influence of Ezra Pound. Pound recognized Eliot’s poetic talent and assisted in many of his publications and influenced his work. What stood out to Pound was‚ perhaps‚ Eliot’s distinct style of writing created from his intense use of diction and lengthy sentences that often derived from metaphors. Eliot is known to write with
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not work because of their economic privileges. However‚ their names did not survive‚ neither their anthologies. The atmosphere in America was so heavy that many writhers left it to go to Europe (Pound‚ Eliot‚ and H.D.) There are two types of Modernism: high modernism (they escape to Europe. E.g. Eliot‚ Pound…) and low modernism stay in USA. E.g. Emerson) The first ones wanted to look for a more cosmopolitan poetry‚ white poets who stayed wrote celebrating the
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e.e. Cummings: The 20th Century’s Most Idiosyncratic Poet By: Sara Gilmore Poet Research Paper March 9‚ 2013 Mrs. Evans Although he was also a painter‚ he was mostly known for being a “painter with words.” Born into one of Boston’s most influential families‚ Edward Estlin Cummings’ (later known as e.e. Cummings) iconoclastic poetry acquired much attention from 20th century society. Encompassing over a total of 2‚900 poems‚ four plays‚ essays‚ and two autobiographical novels‚ Cummings’ work is
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of reading and writing fiction? (1-2 pages typed.) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 9/23 Richard Wakefield‚ “In a Poetry Workshop” (1371-1372) Mark Halliday‚ “Graded Paper” (905-906) Ezra Pound‚ “In a Station of the Metro” (860) 9/25 Billy Collins (1123-1130)‚ “Introduction to Poetry” (776) 9/27 T.E. Hulme‚ “On the Differences between Poetry and Prose” (863-864) Wilfred Owen‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est” (853-854) ________________
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