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Modern poetry - Coggle Diagram
Modern poetry
Second generation
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Unlike the first generation of Modernists, they did not adopt a nihilistic attitude or experimental techniques, preferring more traditional forms and less obscure language, and in their poems were concerned with social problems both at home and abroad.
In the 1930s there were a new generation of poets: Oxford poets' - because they were all studentsfrom Oxford - or the progressive poets'of the 1930s.
New Romanticism
A group of British poets, born after World War l, were known in the 1940s as the New Apocalypse poets because they took their inspiration from the Book of the Apocalypse in the Bible.
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Glimpses of modernism
Between 1900 and the end of World War I in 1918, English poetry changed. Victorianism disapperead and Modernismwere revealed.
The 1910s there were the first-generation Modernists, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, and novelty of the poetry that came out of World War I.
Imagism and vorticism
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They were started in the 1910s Pound, who was born in the United States but lived in Europe because he wanted to get closer to his cultural roots
myth
The Waste Land was a central modernism poetry by Eliot, which is built on myth and anthropology.
It takes the myth of the Holy Grail and it tries to project a complete view of the failure of western civilization, expressed through a series of images of chaos.
Celtic Revival
William Butler Yeats was the most important figure of Celtic Revival. He was also involved in the revival of the Irish theatre, as a playwright and as director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, one of the symbols of Irish nationalism.