LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
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Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
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Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Poets like W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) started in a post-Romantic, Symbolist vein and modernised their poetic idiom after being affected by political and literary developments. Imagism proved radical and important, marking a new point of departure for poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eliot-Father of Modern Poetry. It’s the hundredth anniversary of Eliot’s most famous work, The Waste Land. We will read and study this work and one of Eliot’s earlier works, The Love Song of J.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact, Chaucer still occupies a prominent place in the English literature canon. Ever since the end of the 14th century, Chaucer has been known as the “father of English poetry, ” a model of writing to be imitated by English poets.
Detailed explanation-4: -Modern poetry refers to the verse created by the writers and poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. The actual definition of “modern” varies, depending on the authority cited. Some people would define modern poetry to include the poets of the 19th century, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman.