Modernist poetry in English

letting John her husband discover Clare’s actual race even though Irene herself disapproves of it and suspects Clare to be having an affair with her husband. Irene feels torn between preserving her race or herself. Double consciousness relates the modernist literature because it provides the multiple perspectives as well reveal the uncertainty within one’s race as a whole and individuality. Childs asserts that in modernism there is often a strong sense of ambiguity, which is prominent in…

An accomplished writer of short stories, poetry, plays, essays, autobiographies, editor, and children's book author, he is most known for his poetry. Hughes is often seen as the primary African-American poet of the twentieth century because of his ability to capture the Harlem Renaissance and the period of the blues in his writings. His poems “Too Blue,” “Ballad of the Landlord,” and “The Weary Blues” show his style of rhyming, making them almost song-like. His style of using rhythms and…

men in rights. The right of voting was giving to women over 30 in 1918 and women over 21 in 1928. This social change was accompanied by campaigns of militant suffragettes. The first woman, who was elected to parliament, was Nancy Astor. In poetry, the modernist writer refused remains of romantic sentimentalism and introducing new innovations like individuality. According to novel, novelists choose between traditional literary models and experimental. For drama, it inspires its characters from…

Cummings, the poet that wandered away from the norms of modern society and made astonishing innovations in the realm of poetry through his experimentations with syntax, grammar, punctuation, spacing, and typography. Like every notable literary figure, E.E. Cummings applied his life experiences and influences to his work, helping establish him as one of America’s most distinguished modernist writers. Cummings grew up in a wealthy family that held strong liberal and tradition opinions that…

in that church, but he later leaving it as an adult. Before passing away, Frost’s grandfather had bought a farm and frost later worked the farm. After leaving school to help out at home, any job that he had, he didn’t like it, knowing that he loved poetry he could not…

rests in the amount of literary references used in Donne’s work. Some critics pronounce that Donne believed in new ideas and cultivated them, using literary references as models for his own poetry. Some regard that Donne was not only learned, but used science and mythology to make a specific point in his poetry, appealing to a wider range of critical thinkers. Others disagree with both statements, saying that Donne’s success was merely lucky and he held education to little importance, following…

Meaning that English society had been impacted by the patriotic rhetoric of Brooke and the idea of dying honorably and nobly in sacrificing themselves for the nation, whereas Sassoon, horrified with the brutal reality of outdated tactics and modern weapons wrote poems…

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of French and Italian College of Letters and Science Many people say that I am a member of the generation X, born just before the war, in a country that was right in the process of falling apart. Not long after I first saw the light of day, my country has changed several times its name, its anthem, geographical layout and national identity. I was waiting in line in the arms of my mother to get some milk, I have survived an awful authoritarian regime,…

Poetry is the abundance of life and the most incarnate of languages we use, expressing ourselves in a free and unrestricted form — this is what Ezra Pound means by “Make It New.” However, to create something fresh and unique, we need to look back into the past in order to know what rules and conventions to smash. Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden along with many others are the pioneers of the Modernist era, innovating free verse, intellectual statements, and universal human significance. In this…

which America's harsh laws and surroundings chiefly brought to African slaves or their modern survivors. The mock songs of early Black Americans using an "un-Negro tongue" are well apprehended and mimicked by Eliot as a man of genius who leads the modernist writers including Ezra Pound and W. B.…