Morden Poems

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In this blog we try to analysis some of Modern poems. I try to find to the imageries and symbol in these all poems.

Let's first we see what is Modernism?

Modernism was a cultural movement of the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. It changed art, literature, music, architecture and drama. Modernism rejected tradition. It was interested in new ways of doing old things. Also, there was a belief that science and technology could change the world for the better. It refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life. ... Modernism has also been driven by various social and political agendas.

 Let's throw some light on characteristics:-

1)Individualism:-In Modernist literature, the individual is more interesting than society. ... 

2)Experimentation:-Modernist writers broke free of old forms and techniques. ... 

3)Absurdity:- The carnage of two World Wars profoundly affected writers of the period. ... 

4)Symbolism

5)Formalism

6)MAKE IT NEW- is the Modernist slogan

7) Frustration

8) Fragmentation

9) Isolation

10) Brokenness

11) Nothingness

 Now let's we analysis the poems:-

1) 'The Embankment'- T.E.Hulme:-

The Embankment" is one of the best known poem. This poem has completed into 7 lines. According to my point of view In this poem has may be central thought is lust and falling of man. How any types of lust leads man towards the decayed. This types of addiction became man's life completely weak and dull. So that this types hopeless people prays to god for shelter. It means that here arise question of existence.  In this poem I find symbol like poet as hopeless people in poem. In it we find that gold heels symbolises the ambition.

2)Image " by Edward Storer:-

Forsaken lovers,

       Burning to a chaste white moon

       Upon strange Pyres of loneliness and

       drought.

This poem has completed into only 3 Lines also.According to my point of view in the short poem seems like as an image. We can't bind in one certain idea about any Image. but here may be the Image of Sorrowful condition and everything looks like varnished. I can imagine that situation is became like as land of desert with full moon light. There are somebody on pyre and due to the lake of love and everyone certainly has payed the price. In this we find Symbols like moon and pyre that moon shows the  land of Desert with full moon and pyre refers the bad happening, Death,

Drought,Loneliness.

3)Darkness" 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. According to my point of view I get some thing from title. Darkness also connected with death and something happening bad. Here I can say that Speaker will 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 it we find Symbols like darkness which represent depression, death, negativity also.Other symbol is that silver ribbon which presents mental illness.

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

In this poem we find poet itself gives an image of the mechanism of life. The lifeless people going for the daily routine. The crowd of people are like living dead. Going for work without any enthusiasm. 'Petals' is used as metaphor for people and 'black bough' for a culture of living dead.

5) 'The Pool' - Hilda Doolittle:-

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) " Morning at the Window" by T.S.Eliot:-

This poem written in London, Shortly after the outbreak WWI. In the poem context that may be lurk behind the poem's dark, Oppressive images of everyday life. It is an rhymed poem According to my opinion Speaker watched terrible sight out side from the window at early morning. He 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. This poem has completed into 9 lines. We find Symbols like Basement,Trampled, edges ,Damp Soul, Twisted faces ,Muddy Skirts ,An Aimless Smile.

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

I find some difficulty to understand this poem.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. in this I find Symbols like Red Wheelbarrow and White Chicken.

 8)" l " by E.E.Cummings:-

I like this poem It is very short and significant.This poem appeared in 1958 in Cummings' collection 95 poems, so it's really a late modernist work. Although it's nine line long, it's only contains four words - cleverly arranged so that 'a leaf falls' appears parenthetically within the word ' loneliness'. It was creative poem with imagination. In the poem few lines but it's gives the feeling of loneliness. It's good idea about one single leaf fall on the ground which make poem very interesting. in this I find Symbols like leaf as loneliness.

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

This poem First time published in 1919. It was one of the best Steven's best-known Short poems. It appeared in his first volume off  poems and has been baffling critics and readers. This poem has been completed into 12 lines. Here  poet has good imagination. I think poet puts Jar on the hill. It was represented progress and beauty of nature.

In this ony symbol is that brush presents recreation and wilderness.

10) " 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 doves

They fly away like whitewinged

Doves.

Aldington and H.D. were husband and wife in the 1910-1920." Insouciance" is about writing poems in trenches. Aldington, like many men of his generation, saw action at the at the Western front during WWI. I think it is poem of soldier because they lives without fear of death. Title of the also suggest that thing but in the dreary trenches soldiers are might feel boring. Here used metaphor of doves as a death because one day we all gone as white winged doves. This poem has completed into 5 lines only. In it we find Imagination and metaphor  Dreary Trenches, Flock of Doves, White winged dove.

Word count:-1249