Modernist Poems

                                          

Modernist Poems : Activity identiy Modernist metaphors in these short poems

                                                         

                                                                               

1)   “Darkness” : Joseph Campbell

Darkness

I stop to watch a star shine

In the boghole a

Star no loger, but a

Silverative

ribbon of light.

I look at it and pass on. 

                         


                     Darkness title shows some negative thoughts and mood of poet. Star shine showe some hope and positiveness for life. Poems show is the emergence of a distinctly modern style of poetry that rejects the gushing excesses of the worst Victorian verse.

2)   “Image” : Edward Storer

Forsaken Lovers,

Burning to a chaste white

Moon

Upon strange pyres of

Loneliness and

Drought.

                       

                Here poet may be interpret the he shows one couple and with the use of word burning shows hateness for love.

3)   “In a station of the metro” : Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces

In the Crowd;

petals on a wet, black bough.

                  

                           Ezra Pound described metro station and people who are on this station. She says that how we become puppets of feeling less life. It talks about the repetitive life of modern people like a living dead.

4)   “ The embankment” : T.E.Hulme

Once, in finesse of fiddles

Found I ecstasy,

In a flash of gold heels on the

hard pavement.

Now see I

That warmth’s the very stuff

 of poesy.

Oh, god, make small

The old star-eaten blanket of

The sky,

That I may fold it round me

And in comfort lie.

                       

                      Modernist literature at first seems difficult to understand. In this poem, Hale is trying to escape form earthily realities and wants himself to be wind up with comfortable lies.

5)   “Insouciance”: Richard Aldington

In and out of the dreary

Trenches

Trudging cheerily under the

Stars

I make for myself little

Poems

Delicate as a flock of doves

They fly away like

whitewinged

Doves.

                             

                  The poem represents about war. Here poet says that he is tired and he want freedom or he wants to free from his responsibility.

6)    “The Pool” : Hilda Doolittle

Are you alive?

I touch you.

You quiver like a sea-fish.

I Cover you with my net.

What are you banded one?

                            

                   Here in this poem “The Pool” an image of in our mind word stored wrer. Water is like purity and rebirth. The lyric has a hint of a sentiment antonomous life where it is hard for a person to survive. So the illustration utilized “ trembling seafish “ and power controls this sort of person.

7)    “ Morning at the Window” : T.S.Eliot

Ther are rattling breakfast

Plates in basement kitchens,

And along the trampled edges of the street

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaid

Sprouting despondently at are a gates.

The brown waves of for foss up to me

Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,

And tear from a passerdy with muddy skirts

An aimless smile that hovers in the air

And vanishes along the level of the roofs.

                            

                   The picture is that of a morning . T.s.Eliot is writing the poem form the point of the housemaid who is constantly engaged with lots of work.

8)    “ The Red Wheelbarrow “ : William Carlos Williams

So much depends upon

A rod wheel

Barrow

Glazed with rain

Water

Beside the white

Chicken.

                          

                  Poet has used many symbols here. The first line is colloquial and open in its invitation, the second line, the preposition “upon” prepares the reader for the specifics to follow . The whole poem is symbolicall.

9)   “ Anecdote of the Jar “ : Wallace Stevens

I placed a jae in Tennessee,

And round it was, upon a hill.

It Made the slovenly wilderness

Surround that hill.

The Wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild.

The Jar was round upon the ground

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everwhere.

The Jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush.

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

                               

                Through this poem we can understand that how life. Becomes mixer of both the things And indirectly we can . Say it is hybridization. As same in our country we are eating both the things pizza as well as rotala.

10) ‘I(a’-E.E.Cummings

I(a

le

af

fa

II

s)

one

I

Iness

                      

                This is the best poem amongst all given here. Poet have marvelously captured the image of falling leaves in the poem. Words even are falling in the poem, just like leaf. Broken into pieces, and with that word and leaf, loneliness also fals and spreads in the mind of reader.