Reaching for a goal. Striving to be different. Attempting to meet the expectations of others. William Carlos Williams worked hard throughout his career to reach his goal of perfecting his own simple and modern style of poetry‚ along with the help of some friends. William lived in the era of modernism and was considered to be an imagist poet. Williams strived to write poetry that focused on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime
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as causing the Trojan War when Paris takes Helen for himself from the Spartan king Menelaus. Thus‚ various questions arise about her beauty‚ most specifically regarding the worth or harm of such a beauty. In fact‚ in Edgar Allen Poe’s To Helen and Hilda Doolittle’s Helen‚ the two poems express two contrasting messages involving Helen’s beauty using literary elements such as tone‚ diction‚ the author’s background‚ different stanza form‚ and imagery. At a first glance at the two poems‚ the difference
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MEG 2 Assignments Ans. 2 Shakespeare’s “Midsummer’s Night Dream” is interwoven with supernatural elements such as fairies‚ elves‚ unrealistic dreams that have been used as a tool to create confusion and therefore comedy within a dream about romance. Like the witches in Macbeth‚ the fairies in “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” are very much a part of life and interact with men and this can be clearly seen when Oberon accuses Titania of having an affair with the mortal Thesus. Dreams within a
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Imagism and Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was one of the greatest poets of the modern era‚ creating a literary movement known as “imagism.” Pound coined the term in 1912 to assist Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) in the marketing of some of her poems. Doolittle was an unknown author‚ and Pound decided that her work would be accepted more easily if she were identified with a group of poets (Dettmar/Watt)‚ such as Richard Aldington and F.S. Flint (“Imagists”). Imagists focused mainly on the “clarity of expression
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o’er a perfumed sea‚ The weary‚ way-worn wanderer bore” (Lines 3-5). The poem flows in likeness to sea‚ of which much of this poem includes. There is a simple‚ yet fluid rhyme scheme that is often a pattern of alternating end rhymes. “Helen”‚ by Hilda
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is the simple story of a fire truck going through the city on a rainy day. There were not too many styles of music‚ or literature‚ which produced poems as seemingly random‚ yet meaningful as the Jazz era. Another example of this is by the poet Hilda Doolittle‚ who is actually said to be the creator of the Imagist style of poetry. In Doolittle’s poem “Heat” she speaks of a wind that is coming through to cool down the heat. She says that the fruit will not all in thick air‚ and that the wind will cut
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Unit 5: Disillusion‚ Defiance‚ and Discontent (1914-1946) “We asked the cyclone to go around our barn but it didn’t hear us.” -Carl Sandburg from The People‚ Yes Carl Sandburg was an American writer‚ best known for his poetry during modernism. The quote means people like to think they are in control and then something like this happens‚ and they realize that they ’re not. The themes of the work is implied not stated Timeline The most significant ten year period is from 1920 to 1930 because
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Voices and Visions: Ezra Pound Out of all of the poets in the Voices and Visions series‚ Ezra Pound was one the few I was least familiar with. I’ve learned that he is one of modern poetry’s most significant figures–as well as one of the most controversial–of the twentieth century. He was committed and passionate about his work and about the advancement of poetry in the world. He had high standards for the arts and wasn’t afraid to rebuke anyone who didn’t meet them. Pound was born in Hailey
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Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century‚ he opened a seminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers‚ and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such major contemporaries as W. B. Yeats‚ Robert Frost‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Marianne Moore‚ H. D.‚ James Joyce‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and especially T. S. Eliot. His own significant
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the Egoist‚ Poetry‚ and Others‚ later editing the Dial‚ a highly regarded modernist periodical. In part because of her extensive European travels before the First World War‚ Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens‚ Hilda Doolittle‚ T. S. Eliot‚ and Ezra Pound and corresponded for a time with W.H. Auden and Ezra Pound. In her poetry Moore experimented with the stanza and strived to unite what she called "precision‚ economy of statement [and] logic" with complex rhyme patterns
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