Modernist poetry in English

Individuals are continuously attempting to maintain peace, yet they struggle with the prominent reality of conflict and war. Historically, English thinkers have surmised that conflict is an inert quality, yet some think otherwise. Additionally, many people question whether peace or war is more effective in dealing with conflict. More recently, the Modernists—especially George Orwell—have focused their attention on the debate of violence versus peace through the examination of historical…

For example in the short poem, “poetry”, she starts the poem by saying she dislikes poetry, but continues to saying “reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine”(poets.org). So it’s clear by the second verse that we shouldn’t take the first line literally…

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Justine Reynolds Miss Kiss English 10 Honors-2 3 May 2015 Maybe Different is Okay EE Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French…

Kathryn Holcombe World Literature Professor Johns 5 December 2014 Charles Simic Modernist literature was mainly a fictional English genre of writing, from the early 1900’s into the 1960’s. Due to the increasing of industrialization and globalization modernist was molded into its own. The terrifying events War World I and War World II and the new inventions of technology made many people question the world as they knew it. Contemporary literature can be defined as literature with its setting…

Brooke Lambert and Katherine Scarborough Mrs. Suggs ENG-232-ND1 16 October 2017 Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was a famous American poet/lawyer. His works were part of the new writing movement known as the Modernist. His most popular work, Spoon River Anthology, gained a lot of support as well as criticism from the general public and other writers. His new and untraditional way of writing caused more conservatives to become angered by his writing do to the scandalous ideas. Masters is a…

1916 and grew up in the Canadian Prairies. She is as a modernist writer best know for her poetry but also writes fiction and non-fiction novels and short stories, along with books for children (Rooke and Djwa). P.K Page signed her name with initials instead of her full name because it confuses the gender of the author as a result of the theory created by T.S Eliot during the Modernist Period, which has been termed the “Impersonal Theory of Poetry”. He discusses his theory in his critical essay…

The war poet and war poetry in general were terms used firstly within context of the World War I.. From the beginning of the war times, poetry was written mostly by civilians, not by poets. Such poetry had no established identity. It was later, between 1914 and 1918 when this type of poetry acquired notion of genre, and so-called soldier-poets became a species. Enormous increase in writing poetry related to the war occurred. War poetry became very realistic, describing situation as it was…

The Harlem Renaissance era gave many upcoming authors and poets the ability to express themselves. After World War I, The Great Migration of approximately half a million African Americans from the rural south to the bustling and promising north gave way to the formation and beginning of the Harlem Renaissance-New Negro era. Within the next ten years more than 750,000 African Americans would follow which increased the black northern population by a stunning amount. This was the start of black…

According to the Poetry Foundation, Modernism originated by growing “out of the philosophical, scientific, political, and ideological shifts that followed the Industrial Revolution, up to World War I and its aftermath.” Furthermore, it “was a re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of their predecessors.” As Modernism began, many writers including T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Ezra Pound began creating poems with this new, innovative style. One such writer, Wallace Stevens,…