Modernist Poems : Activity to identify Modernist Metaphors and Images in this Poems. To open task link Click Here
1) T. E. Hulme 's " The Embankment "
This poem is the reflection of conditions of poor and homeless people. It's based on 'Art for life sake ' rather than 'Art for Art sake.' The writer here tried to show the real conditions of homeless people. So the basic concepts of poem based on Reality.
The poem deals with the basic needs of human body. Such like Warmth , water and air. Here poem empathise on warmth that without it human body can't survive in the life. Poet realised the importance of warmth. He besseching God to make a blanket of starry sky for warmth.
● Modern Metaphors and Images :
1) Finess of Fiddles : Musical Gathering like dance
2) Flash of Gold : Beautiful woman like Courtesans or prostitutes
3) Fallen Gentleman : men who down because of sexual temptation and ruined emotionally or financially rather than by luck
4) Old star eaten blanket : Breathing new life
• Modern Image :
Poet talked about home by choosing 'Fiddles' and 'Gold heels'. This images rejected because both associated with luxury. But here "warmth " necessary not merely desires.
2) Joseph Campbell 's "Darkness " :
In this poem poet described the darkness in the positive way. The view of night that how sky has become dark without the stars. The night repressive in negative way in the poem " The Embankment by T. E. Hulme". In this poet look it that there is no stars but light is still their. So light is the symbol of hope that there is some hope behind the darkness.
●Modern Metaphors and Image :
1) Boghole : land surface having a miry or songy bottom
2) Silver ribbon : Symbol of light . It is sign of awareness
3) Edward Storer 's " Image " :
This poem is deals with the theme of love. It's talking about 'forsake lovers ' means depart from each other. For them this departure is like unbearable. Normally Moon is the symbol of peace and light but it burning them because they are on strange pyre of loneliness and drought. So for them this departure is equal to death.
● Modern Metaphors and images :
1) burning to a chaste white moon : here Moon is symbolise as fire who burning lovers.
2) Pyres of loneliness and drought
4) Ezra pound 's " In a station of Metro" :
The shortness of this poem fits with its topic. Here poet described about Metro station. Faces of of individual in the Metro were best into the poem not with the description but with the equation. The faces in the crowd were becoming visible to poet very suddenly and probably disappeared just as fast. They almost look like a ghost.
A "Bough" is a big tree branch and it wet and black at night after rain. Pound connected image of petals and boughs to mass humanity. It linked man made matropolitan scene with the cycle of nature.
● Modern Metaphors and Images:
1) Flowers and tress like humanbeing on metro : constantly moving , growing and changing. Similarly to petals will never look exactly the same.
5 ) Hilda Doolittle 's " The Pool " :
This poem is read as the feminist poem. Also it read as the modernist poem. This poem was about self discovery. Poet asked herself a question that "Are u alive ". It Metaphorical said her consciousness.
Also this poem reflected the condition of women at that time. In modern time women faces many problems. There were many restrictions against women. Women has to suffered a lot for their existence.
● Modern Metaphors and Images:
1) Banned one
2) Sea and fishing Net
The 'sea' symbolised as society and 'fishing net' symbolised as restrictions on women's feeling and freedom under the net of social rules and rituals. So women has no any freedom of doing as they likes. So for that the Metaphor 'Banned one ' used.
6) Richard Aldington 's " Insouciance ":
This poem written a year after world war 1 ended. In it poet described life in the tranches and how poetry kept him alive and happy. It is oddly light hearted when it compared with modern ideals of war poetry.
● Modern Metaphor and Images :
1) white winged doves : files away was librarting and it helped to understand poet 's perspective on arts and it kept him alive and happy during that times.
7) T. S. Eliot 's " Morning at the window "
The poem is a great example of paradoxically image. In the title of poem suggest the theme of hope and joyful life. Morning connected with hope and joy. But in the core of poem it is completely different. The main theme of poem connected with poverty.
In this poem poet described the life of poor people by standing and observing from his window. So window became the line of difference between poor and rich people.
Poor people live in the basement because they can't effort houses. They have to struggle a lot to fullfill their basic needs. So poet described the morning of poor people. They have to work whole day.
● Modern Metaphors and images:
1) Rattling Breakfast Plates : Difficult situation for fullfill basic needs , Hardwork
2) Twisted faces : tears in eyes : painful situation of poor
3) Damp souls : Hardship and misery
4) Muddy skirts : Sympathy towards poor
5) Aimless smile : Hope and strength
8 ) William Carlos Williams 's " The red Wheelbarrow " :
This poem is the best example of true Imagist. Red wheelbarrow and white sheep. Both colors Red and White symbolised different theme. White symbolised as purity and innocence and Red symbolised as power and passion.
Wheel symbolised as life and Barrow symbolised as body. The Barrow always depends on wheel like that Body always depending on life. As like wheel life is always moving towards progress.
The concept of ' no idea but in things ' means that all ideas are dependent upon the concrete things. So the whole concept of the poem is ' depends '. This poem is also about agriculture that dependent upon rain.
● Modern Metaphors and images :
1) Red wheel Barrow
2) white sheepes
3) Rain
9 ) Wallace Stevens 's " Anecdote of the Jar " :
It is imaginative poem in which poet explored the question of superiority between Art and Nature. Tennessee is the name of Jar. It reminding one of the Grecian Urns by Keats.
The contrast became more difficult as poem developes . ' Anecdote of Jar ' is the example of that express an acceptance of limits of imagination. It can't reproduced or recycle. The Imagination and Nature both have their own uniqueness. But at the end poet realise that his Art is not capable as nature is.
● Modern Metaphor and Images :
1) Jar : Art object, made by human beings , imagination
2) Hills : Nature
10 ) E. E. Cummings 's I (a...) " Leaf falls on loneliness ":
The image of single leaf is the symbol of loneliness and that sense of loneliness is enhance by the structure of poem. The poem is only of few words but it's effect is more powerful. Leaf is symbolise as life and falls symbolise as death. It has a deep and effective meaning behind the words.
● Modern Metaphor and Image :
1) leaf falls : Death
So there can be many interpretation that comes after reading these poems. So the modernist poems are very difficult to understand for us. There is always hidden meaning behind every word in the poem.
In this poem poet described the darkness in the positive way. The view of night that how sky has become dark without the stars. The night repressive in negative way in the poem " The Embankment by T. E. Hulme". In this poet look it that there is no stars but light is still their. So light is the symbol of hope that there is some hope behind the darkness.
●Modern Metaphors and Image :
1) Boghole : land surface having a miry or songy bottom
2) Silver ribbon : Symbol of light . It is sign of awareness
3) Edward Storer 's " Image " :
" Forsaken lovers,
Burning to a chaste white moon,
Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought."
This poem is deals with the theme of love. It's talking about 'forsake lovers ' means depart from each other. For them this departure is like unbearable. Normally Moon is the symbol of peace and light but it burning them because they are on strange pyre of loneliness and drought. So for them this departure is equal to death.
● Modern Metaphors and images :
1) burning to a chaste white moon : here Moon is symbolise as fire who burning lovers.
2) Pyres of loneliness and drought
4) Ezra pound 's " In a station of Metro" :
The shortness of this poem fits with its topic. Here poet described about Metro station. Faces of of individual in the Metro were best into the poem not with the description but with the equation. The faces in the crowd were becoming visible to poet very suddenly and probably disappeared just as fast. They almost look like a ghost.
A "Bough" is a big tree branch and it wet and black at night after rain. Pound connected image of petals and boughs to mass humanity. It linked man made matropolitan scene with the cycle of nature.
● Modern Metaphors and Images:
1) Flowers and tress like humanbeing on metro : constantly moving , growing and changing. Similarly to petals will never look exactly the same.
5 ) Hilda Doolittle 's " The Pool " :
This poem is read as the feminist poem. Also it read as the modernist poem. This poem was about self discovery. Poet asked herself a question that "Are u alive ". It Metaphorical said her consciousness.
Also this poem reflected the condition of women at that time. In modern time women faces many problems. There were many restrictions against women. Women has to suffered a lot for their existence.
● Modern Metaphors and Images:
1) Banned one
2) Sea and fishing Net
The 'sea' symbolised as society and 'fishing net' symbolised as restrictions on women's feeling and freedom under the net of social rules and rituals. So women has no any freedom of doing as they likes. So for that the Metaphor 'Banned one ' used.
6) Richard Aldington 's " Insouciance ":
This poem written a year after world war 1 ended. In it poet described life in the tranches and how poetry kept him alive and happy. It is oddly light hearted when it compared with modern ideals of war poetry.
● Modern Metaphor and Images :
1) white winged doves : files away was librarting and it helped to understand poet 's perspective on arts and it kept him alive and happy during that times.
7) T. S. Eliot 's " Morning at the window "
The poem is a great example of paradoxically image. In the title of poem suggest the theme of hope and joyful life. Morning connected with hope and joy. But in the core of poem it is completely different. The main theme of poem connected with poverty.
In this poem poet described the life of poor people by standing and observing from his window. So window became the line of difference between poor and rich people.
Poor people live in the basement because they can't effort houses. They have to struggle a lot to fullfill their basic needs. So poet described the morning of poor people. They have to work whole day.
● Modern Metaphors and images:
1) Rattling Breakfast Plates : Difficult situation for fullfill basic needs , Hardwork
2) Twisted faces : tears in eyes : painful situation of poor
3) Damp souls : Hardship and misery
4) Muddy skirts : Sympathy towards poor
5) Aimless smile : Hope and strength
8 ) William Carlos Williams 's " The red Wheelbarrow " :
This poem is the best example of true Imagist. Red wheelbarrow and white sheep. Both colors Red and White symbolised different theme. White symbolised as purity and innocence and Red symbolised as power and passion.
Wheel symbolised as life and Barrow symbolised as body. The Barrow always depends on wheel like that Body always depending on life. As like wheel life is always moving towards progress.
The concept of ' no idea but in things ' means that all ideas are dependent upon the concrete things. So the whole concept of the poem is ' depends '. This poem is also about agriculture that dependent upon rain.
● Modern Metaphors and images :
1) Red wheel Barrow
2) white sheepes
3) Rain
9 ) Wallace Stevens 's " Anecdote of the Jar " :
It is imaginative poem in which poet explored the question of superiority between Art and Nature. Tennessee is the name of Jar. It reminding one of the Grecian Urns by Keats.
The contrast became more difficult as poem developes . ' Anecdote of Jar ' is the example of that express an acceptance of limits of imagination. It can't reproduced or recycle. The Imagination and Nature both have their own uniqueness. But at the end poet realise that his Art is not capable as nature is.
● Modern Metaphor and Images :
1) Jar : Art object, made by human beings , imagination
2) Hills : Nature
10 ) E. E. Cummings 's I (a...) " Leaf falls on loneliness ":
The image of single leaf is the symbol of loneliness and that sense of loneliness is enhance by the structure of poem. The poem is only of few words but it's effect is more powerful. Leaf is symbolise as life and falls symbolise as death. It has a deep and effective meaning behind the words.
● Modern Metaphor and Image :
1) leaf falls : Death
So there can be many interpretation that comes after reading these poems. So the modernist poems are very difficult to understand for us. There is always hidden meaning behind every word in the poem.
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