Thinking activity on the identification
Petals - used for peoples
Black bough
• The pool
It was written by Hilda Doolittle and Pound both hailed from the US, and it was Pound who gave Doolittle the rebrand ‘H. D.’. They were even an item at one point. Along with Richard Aldington and Pound himself, H. D. was one of the main practitioners of Imagism, the short-lived poetic movement which Pound founded (and named) in 1912. ‘The Pool’ is one of H. D.’s finest short poems, about coming face-to-face with her reflection in the waters of a rock-pool.
Pool - water
Water - rebirth, purity
• insouciance
It was written by Richard Aldington Aldington made up the trio of leading Imagists along with his wife and the movement’s founder, Pound. ‘Insouciance’ is about writing poems in the trenches – Aldington, like many men of his generation, saw action at the Western Front during WWI.
Dreary trenches - ups and downs of life.
Flock of doves - brightness
White winged dove - agressiveness
• morning at the window
It was written by T.S Eliot..This poem was written in London in the same year, shortly after the outbreak of WWI – a context that may lurk behind the poem’s dark, oppressive images of everyday life. It’s an unrhymed poem, but look at the shared syntax of the line endings: ‘in basement kitchens’, ‘of the street’.
Tear - negativity
Muddy skirt - negativity
• The red wheelbarrow
It was written by W.C William.The Red Wheelbarrow’ has variously been viewed as the epitome of Imagist practice and as barely ‘poetry’ at all. It first appeared in Williams’s 1923 volume Spring and All, a book which combined free verse with pieces written in prose. Some scholarly analyses of ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ can be found.
Rain and water
Colours like red and white
• Anacdote of the Jar
It was written by Wallace Stevens. First published in 1919, this is one of Stevens’s best-known short poems. It appeared in his first volume of poems and has been baffling critics and readers ever since…
Jar - used for state
• 'I'
It was written by E. E. Cummings.
This poem appeared in 1958 in Cummings’ collection 95 Poems, so it’s really a late modernist work. Although it’s nine lines long, it only contains four words – cleverly arranged so that ‘a leaf falls’ appears parenthetically within the word ‘loneliness’. Richard S. Kennedy, Cummings’ biographer, called it ‘the most delicately beautiful literary construct that Cummings ever created’.
Fall - death, negativity
• symbols
• metaphor
• Imagery
The task given by Dilip barad sir,
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2016/06/modernist-poems-activity-identify_25.html?m=1
The task given by Dilip barad sir,
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2016/06/modernist-poems-activity-identify_25.html?m=1
What is modernism?
Modernism is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Characteristics
Poems:-
• The Embankment
It was written by T. E. Hulme. He was an influential poet and thinkar in the first few years of the twentieth century. He left behind only a handful of short poems – our pick of which can be read – but he revolutionised the way English poetry approached issues of rhyme, metre, and imagery.
Embankment - An area for homlessh people sleeping rough
Fiddle
Gold heels
Balnket
• Darkness
It was written by Joseph combell. Campbell was an Irish poet writing a similar kind of poetry to Hulme at around the same time, though they were working independently of each other. In a previous post we’ve offered four short poems by Joseph Campbell, including ‘Darkness’ – a very short piece of early modernist poetry. Poetry doesn’t come much more understated than this.
Star - prosprity, brightness
Darkness - downfall, death, negativity
• Image
It was written by Edward storer.Storer was writing at around the same time as several other early modernist poets on this list, notably T. E. Hulme (whom he knew) and Joseph Campbell, though he started off writing independently of them. He was clearly influenced by Japanese forms such as the haiku, as the following poem demonstrates.
Moon
Pure - loneliness
• In a station of the metro
The well known poem written by Ezra pound. Pound arrived at this two-line poem after writing a much longer draft which he then cut down, line by line. The poem describes the sight of the crowd of commuters at the Paris Metro station, using a vivid and original image.
Petals - used for peoples
Black bough
• The pool
It was written by Hilda Doolittle and Pound both hailed from the US, and it was Pound who gave Doolittle the rebrand ‘H. D.’. They were even an item at one point. Along with Richard Aldington and Pound himself, H. D. was one of the main practitioners of Imagism, the short-lived poetic movement which Pound founded (and named) in 1912. ‘The Pool’ is one of H. D.’s finest short poems, about coming face-to-face with her reflection in the waters of a rock-pool.
Pool - water
Water - rebirth, purity
• insouciance
It was written by Richard Aldington Aldington made up the trio of leading Imagists along with his wife and the movement’s founder, Pound. ‘Insouciance’ is about writing poems in the trenches – Aldington, like many men of his generation, saw action at the Western Front during WWI.
Dreary trenches - ups and downs of life.
Flock of doves - brightness
White winged dove - agressiveness
• morning at the window
It was written by T.S Eliot..This poem was written in London in the same year, shortly after the outbreak of WWI – a context that may lurk behind the poem’s dark, oppressive images of everyday life. It’s an unrhymed poem, but look at the shared syntax of the line endings: ‘in basement kitchens’, ‘of the street’.
Tear - negativity
Muddy skirt - negativity
• The red wheelbarrow
It was written by W.C William.The Red Wheelbarrow’ has variously been viewed as the epitome of Imagist practice and as barely ‘poetry’ at all. It first appeared in Williams’s 1923 volume Spring and All, a book which combined free verse with pieces written in prose. Some scholarly analyses of ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ can be found.
Rain and water
Colours like red and white
• Anacdote of the Jar
It was written by Wallace Stevens. First published in 1919, this is one of Stevens’s best-known short poems. It appeared in his first volume of poems and has been baffling critics and readers ever since…
Jar - used for state
• 'I'
It was written by E. E. Cummings.
This poem appeared in 1958 in Cummings’ collection 95 Poems, so it’s really a late modernist work. Although it’s nine lines long, it only contains four words – cleverly arranged so that ‘a leaf falls’ appears parenthetically within the word ‘loneliness’. Richard S. Kennedy, Cummings’ biographer, called it ‘the most delicately beautiful literary construct that Cummings ever created’.
Fall - death, negativity
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