LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
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The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
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The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
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The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture
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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 is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Modern poetry is highly intellectual; it is written from the mind of the poet and it addresses the mind of the reader, like the poems of T. S. Eliot. 6. It is interested in the ugly side of life and in taboo subjects like drug addiction, crime, prostitution and some other subjects.
Detailed explanation-4: -Diverse Variety of Themes. Realism. Love. Pessimism. Romantic Elements. Nature. Humanitarian and Democratic Note. Religion and Mysticism. More items