LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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It is primarily a narrative poem.
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It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.
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It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.
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Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Leavis remarked that the poem was ‘the summing-up of an individual life’ but also reflects the ‘miscellaneousness of modern culture’ and ‘the absence of direction’; another important theme in Mauberley, for Leavis, is ‘the uncongeniality of the modern world to the artist’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ezra Pound’s 1920 poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” is a landmark in the career of the great American modernist poet. In the poem, Pound uses two alter egos to discuss the first twelve years of his career, a period during which aesthetic and literary concerns fully engaged Pound’s attention.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements. Pound, along with Richard Aldington and other writers, founded the Imagist movement.