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MODERN POETRY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - free choice of any subject matter
      - hard, clear and precise images
      - aim of poetry = to achieve precision, discipline, 'dry hardness’
      - short poems, usually the poet’s response to a scene or object, without any moral comment or teaching
      - no metrical regularity
- - - - free verse
        
        evocative power of language
        
        possibility for the readers to give the poem their own meaning
        
        quotations from other literatures (cosmopolitan interests)
        
        importance to the sound of words (‘music of ideas’)
        
        indirect rather than direct statements
    - - poet = the explorer of experience who used language to create rich patterns of meaning that required close analysis in order to be understood.
      - "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality."
        ("Tradition and the Individual Talent", 1917)
        vs Wordsworth’s definition of poetry as "emotion recollected in tranquillity"
      - "The Waste Land" recorded the collapse and fragmentation of Western civilisation and the cultural and spiritual sterility that characterised the beginning of the century.