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MODERN POETRY: TRADITION AND EXPERIMENTATION
The first decades of the…
MODERN POETRY: TRADITION AND EXPERIMENTATION
The first decades of the 20th century werea period of extraordinary originality and vitality in poetry.
A variety of trends and currents expressed the nature of modern experience:
The Georgian Poets was influenced by the Victorian Romantic tradition. They were Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), and Edward Thomas (1878–1917). They:
•felt sympathy for English elements, such as the countryside as an idyllic place;
•remained indifferent or hostile to the revolution in sensibility and technique started by the Symbolists.
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Content of their poetry = the horrors of modern warfare represented in an unconventional, anti-rhetorical way
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Language employed= violent, everyday
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Modern poetry officially began with Imagism, a movement which flourished between 1912 and 1917.
The name ‘Imagiste’invented by the American poet Ezra Pound (1885–1972).
The main aesthetic principles of Imagist poets were:
•constant use of hard,clear and precise images
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•poems,usually short, were the poet’s response to a scene or object, and contained no moral comment;
•the aim of poetry: to achieve precision, discipline, dry hardness.
Symbolism was a movement started in France with Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal(1857). It influenced the new poetry.
The style of the Symbolist poets was characterised by:
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•the use of quotations from other literatures, revealing cosmopolitan interests
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