Modernism in poetry

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Expressionism

· Style in art

· Subjective, personal vision

· The irrational

· Exotic elements

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· A lot of changes, revolution in poetry

· T. E. Hulme – a philosopher, philosophy of art, history of art & literature

o Criticism on romanticism – the poet talked about his emotions, vague emotionalism of a poem, he was concentrated on himself, subjectivity

o He opposed any romantic attitudes

· The purpose of poetry is different, no concentration on the author's emotions

· Poetry is sth like an exploration, examination of the phenomena of the world,

· poet - a craftsman, scientist, examiner of phenomena in his mind, not a sweet singer talking about feelings only

· objectivity of poetry

· everything unnecessary is eliminated, you go to the subject, explore a certain phenomena

· poetry – less emotional

· you have to think together with the speaker (be more active) and not only expect that a poem will abruptly flow to your head

· more demanding, complicated poems,

· sources of inspiration: metaphysical poets (In 19th century were republished, some were discovered)

· new form of a verse: FREE VERSE (“verse libre”) –

o unconstrained by any formal regulations, you don't have to rhyme

o The number of syllables does not matter

o You don't have to set focus on writing, like a sonnet

o Unimportant position of the stresses

o They believed that traditional versification forms were harmful, constricting

o The form should be arbitrary chosen

o The concept should dictate the form – not the other way around

o Topic of the thoughts is more important than rhymes etc

· Symbol may be the way to construct the poem – than it was rejected because of being too vague. Symbol can be read in different ways by different people. You cannot be precise with the symbol.

· Image – nothing new in modernism, the kinds of image and how you used them was different

· Haiku – a little poem e.g. “The Frog” (17^th century)

o Being pure images, based on a visual, auditory image, details, no comments, the image is enough to carry the whole poem

· You should use images containing as much meaning as possible.

· Poetic group: “The imagists”

o Anglo-American poets, set in 1915 – manifesto: a volume of poetry

o Ezra Pound – great friend of T. S. Eliot, he read Eliot's poetry

o Hilda Dollitle

o William Carlos Williams

o Image + free verse

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THE 1930's

–The Great Depression, stock market, economic crisis, massive unemployment

– The rise of the totalitarian regiment, fascism

– Germany 1932 – prosecusoin of the News

– Spain, Italy

– The news from Russia don't come so easily to western countries

– George Orwell „The Animal Farm” – criticism of totalitarism