Identifying Modernist Metaphors/Symbols/Images in Short
Poems
Hello Readers,
This blog is a part of my classroom activity given below:
Let us see
first, what is Modernism?
What is modernism ?
Modernism refer to
early twentieth century. The early twentieth century writers not follow same
way of writing or tradition way of writing but they were broken rule.
Modernism is try something, they were
experimenting something, they were try to hold something which was totally
breaking away . Modern time had another shock,
in Nietzsche, Freud French philosopher who said "God was dead"
.
Victorian life was
stable it's trace on morality, its trace
on simplicity, it's wanted to sustain faith in each other, its so in short can say,
Modernism is new
experimentation, is new what forms, new
psychological study, new social structure by Karl Marx, new theory by Charles Darwin, new scribble work
rather than emotions, new illusion education all these together form, New human
expressions that is called modernism.
Here
are analyzed, and identify, modern is metaphor, symbols, images, from the given
poem.
1) The Embankment by
T.E.Hulme.
Once,
in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,
In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.
Now see I
That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy.
Oh, God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.
In this poem baise on "fatal love and
inevitable death".
Embankment is area well-known for homeless
people sleeping rough. a fallen gentleman reflects on his past, not just men
down on their luck but often by implication. those who had secured to sexual
Temptation, and then subsequently relied, emotionally, or financially, and had
treated stars. In hulme is out to questions our notions that the starry sky as
beautiful and romantic and moth eaten blanket as squalid and on narrative but
to the speaker freezing to death on London street the blanket is more
immediately valuable and beautiful than the sky above him .
In other words good poetry
deals with necessary and include only they necessary.
2) Darkness by Joseph
Campbell.
Darkness.
I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole –
A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.
I look at it, and pass on.
Here title itself reflect some kind of
the darkness. In the poem poet present view of night that how the sky has
because dark without star and queries night everywhere, if we see in night is
most represented to show beauty of stars and Moon. “we feel peace of mind but a
poem is reflected of the darkness its symbol of downfall some kind of the
civilizations that is ." a stars no
longer but is silver ribbon of light" it means disinterestedness prevalent
in Modern Times so decade pass on condition or civilization is presented.
3) Image by Edward
storer
Forsaken
lovers,
Burning to a chaste white moon,
Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought.
This poem speaker reflect
of the condition is after world war 2 there is many people died to war.
"forsaken lovers" its significant also fatal love
and invisible death.
4) In a station of the
metro by Ezra pound.
The apparition
of these faces in the crowd;
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Petals
on a wet, black bough.
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This poem title is self
reflect of metro station its main modern is life luxurious lifestyle of modern
civilization. lifeless people going for the daily routing crowd people are like
living dead people. People going for work black bough reflect for a culture or
civilization living dead .
5) The Pool by hilda Doolittle
Are you
alive?
I touch you.
You quiver
like a sea-fish.
I cover you
with my net.
What are
you—banded one?
The title the pool give us
speaker reflect to storage water water
is some kind of the sign of the rebirth or give us to life but here water is
rotten or flooring that is why poem reflect the lifelessness in the people muah
lost in the Hasty life.
" Fish caught in net".
6) Insoueiance by
Richard Aldington
In France
(1916–1918)
IN and out of the dreary trenches,
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Trudging cheerily under the stars,
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I make for myself little poems
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Delicate as a flock of doves.
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They fly away like white-winged doves.
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In this poem poets present
set how people are living life in like insoueiace way with lifeless poet
Express their emotions and feelings into the literature." poet say I make
for myself little poems" In an ought of the their have no rule and
regulation, excitement all were equal and one of them can be isolated it's
symbol of the , reference like ' why winged doves' use of the modern culture or
living life .
7) morning at the
window by T.S. Eliot
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts An aimless smile that
hovers in the air And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
Morning at the window is an
images poem that present an image of poverty . The picture is that of a slum
where people lead miserable live . The speaker is at the window I'm a visitor
certain house in the area with poor people live.
The whole set of images in
the poem as symbols. The imaginary familiar and vivid it can be said to symbolize
poverty . Poverty it's also suggest depression misery end squalor in the slums
( poor and dirty areas of the city's)
where the poor live.
In this poem 'morning at
the window' how do poor people live life the beginning of the morning of those
people it starts with breakfast because those people have to go out for work
those people for work we village to the city.
8) The Red wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
The red wheel barrow by Williams
was influenced by owner of the difference isms floating around at this time
such as imagism, and percussions in Oder to find inspiration in something simple such
as an old wheelbarrow that reminds of a friend .
9) Anecdote of the jar
by Wallace Stevens.
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
This poem all about the jar
is centre end speaker present say beauty of her and compared with nature . The
jar as a symbol of the imagination is not fertile and cannot recycle itself or
reproduce thought it May imagination be richer than the nature both have their
uniqueness and yet we feel that.
10)
E.E
lumming
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af
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one
l
iness
The first reading of
poem and Confused of but it is all about the experiment with structure poem .
But is very in cleverly arranged poem . It means a leaf fall on loneliness
loneliness show some kind of the
depression . Europe during 1905 the world poem words suggest fall of
Civilization and fall of spirituality . It's also symbolizes inevitable death.
Thank
you…!!!
