modernist poetry
1.on London’s Embankment an area well-known for homeless people sleeping
rough, a ‘fallen gentleman’ reflects on his past and how he found
pleasure in worldly social and beautiful women – probably (given the
‘flash of gold heels on the hard pavement‘) courtesans or
prostitutes.The phrases like 'hard pavement’, ' star-eaten blanket'
reflects the harshness of life seen by poet.
2.Very title is about darkness which symbol off something like downfall.
And the symbol off hope is stare but it is no longer. As toilet says
but a silver ribbon of light witch is suggest broken stare.
The boy it says 'I look it and pass on 'mean the modern man is indifferent about all this.
3.Forsaken lovers are portrayed here by poet. The lovers are aburning
with this so called Victorian good thoughts and belife. Here, poet says
that the lovers are being burned by white moon.
4. In this quick poem, Pound describes watching faces appear in a metro
station. It is unclear whether he is writing from the vantage point of a
passenger on the train itself or on the platform. The setting is Paris,
France, and as he describes these faces as a "crowd," meaning the
station is quite busy.
5. In the poem, The Pool," Doolittle speaks intimately about an issue
that she faced through her life: her bi-sexuality. One of her mentors,
Sigmund Freud, worked with Doolittle concerning her sexuality, which led
to her standing as an icon for both the gay movement and feminine
rights.
6. In this poem, poet compares his poems with dove. Here the words like
'Trudging' and 'cheerily' gives contrasting meaning. These words give
the image of life where we are doing many things unwillingly. Poems can
not fly but here poet says he has made poems that can fly away like
white winged doves. It looks he want to be free.
7. Morning at the Window is an imagist poem that presents an image of
poverty. The picture is that of a slum where people lead miserable
lives. The speaker is at the window. He may be a visitor of a certain
house in the area where poor people live. The images that come to his
eyes are 'object correlatives' or objects corresponding certain ideas
and emotions in the poet's and the reader's mind.
8. With four stanzas the poem describes in humongous detail not just a
wheelbarrow but a whole scene, a moment stuck in time. Williams’s form
in the poem accomplishes this by using the strange break points to
emphasize certain words and letting the words and their rhythms work for
themselves. The first stanza, “so much depends/ upon” illustrates this
by making the reader’s eye and mind just hang off the word ‘depends.’
9. Anecdote of the Jar is an imagist poem in which Stevens explores the
question of the superiority between art and nature: Is nature superior
to human creations, or does human creativity surpasses nature in some
way? This is an age-old and puzzling question. This poem solves the
riddle by recognizing the unique differences between art and nature: art
may sometimes be more beautiful than nature but it cannot be as
creative as the nature.
10. Poet has beautifully captured the image of falling leaves in the
poem.. The fragmentation of the word loneliness is especially
significant, since it highlights the fact that that word contains the
word one. So here poet compares fall of leaf with life of people.
