LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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H.D.
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Hart Crane
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William Carlos Williams
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T.S. Eliot
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Detailed explanation-1: -Common themes in Modernist poetry are society, disillusionment, collectivism vs. individualism, and societal changes. They represent the changing times due to industrialization and the state of society post-WWI.
Detailed explanation-2: -Modernism developed out of a tradition of lyrical expression, emphasising the personal imagination, culture, emotions, and memories of the poet. For the modernists, it was essential to move away from the merely personal towards an intellectual statement that poetry could make about the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -Modernist writers broke with Romantic pieties and clichés (such as the notion of the Sublime) and became self-consciously skeptical of language and its claims on coherence.
Detailed explanation-4: -What element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from the poem, “Poetry” by Marianne Moore? C. The sentences fall across multiple stanzas. Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” is written in defense of poetry.