William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865. He was born into a highly artistic family with his father being a talented painter and his sisters involved in the arts and craft movement. Yeats grew up under the nationalist revival of the late 19th century which disadvantaged his heritage and influenced his attitude and outlook for the rest of his life. In 1876 the Yeats family moved to England to benefit William’s fathers painting career. William was home schooled for while‚ then transferred to
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and elite structure and allusions ➢ a persistent theme of disillusionment in society Who are the most prominent modernist authors? ➢ T.S. Eliot ➢ Virginia Woolf ➢ Ernest Hemingway ➢ William Faulkner ➢ Ezra Pound ➢ James Joyce ➢ W.B. Yeats ➢ F. Scott Fitzgerald* While Fitzgerald wrote during the modernist era and while he uses themes of disillusionment‚ he tends to retain a more classic style than those of his contemporaries.
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T. S. Eliot‚ perhaps one of the most controversial poets of modern times‚ wrote what many critics consider the most controversial poem of all‚ The Waste Land. The Waste Land was written using a fragmented style. This is a style that is evident in all of Eliot"s writings. There are several reasons for his using this approach‚ from a feeling of being isolated‚ to a problem articulating thoughts (Bergonzi 18‚ Cuddy 13‚ Mack 1745‚ Martin 102). What influenced Eliot the most in writing poetry was a book
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Metro” by Ezra Pound Comment: I am surprised when I saw the “poem”. I didn’t know it’s allowed to only have two lines. But I think it is pretty though. Simplicity and brevity is always beautiful. I like how he used the word apparition. Given that he’s in a transport station‚ faces appear and disappear from your sight as they hurry around. I think it’s the perfect word to use. Fun fact: In the poem‚ Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; Pound suggested
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Week Three Ezra Pound explains to us that a perfect symbol is the natural object‚ and it needs to be clear so that it makes sense what the symbol is to the readers. In “Snowy Egret” by Weigl‚ I think his perfect symbol is the egret. While the innocent bird was looking for fish‚ he got shot and killed. I think this symbolizes that the boy always got in trouble by his dad whenever he didn’t do anything wrong. I believe this because later in the poem‚ the neighbor explains that the son has been
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People questioned‚ “What is becoming of the world?” ("What Are Characteristics of Modernist Literature‚ Fiction in Particular?"). Looking at Cummings early work‚ it’s apparent that he was replicating the style of poets that use the imagist approach. Ezra Pound was an inspirational poet to Cummings. He drew inspiration from his dislike of his environment. He wanted to show the world how poetry did not need to be conservative. He introduced more sexual romance poems‚ and criticisms on society. He experimented
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William Carlos Williams: “ The Use of Force” Katryn Punsalang English Composition II Professor Day 10 April 2012 Katryn Punsalang Professor Day English 112 10 April 2012 “ The Use of Force” William Carlos Williams (1883- 1963) is one of the prominent personas of American Poetry. He received his Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal for poetry from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963. Despite Williams’ recognition as one
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Q. 1. Discuss W.B. Yeats as a modern poet. Answer:- William Butler Yeats‚ one of the modern poets‚ influences his contemporaries as well as successors‚ such as T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound and W.B. Auden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love‚ Irish Nationalism and mysticism‚ but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet he regrets for post-war modern
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Voices of a Real Nation “A little raw”‚ “great and beautiful simplicity of phrase” – that’s how American poets Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell have described the works of Robert Frost‚ one of the most widely read and bellowed American poet. American writer Edward Eggleston wrote‚ “you have given me a rare sensation: you have sent me a book that I can read…” His words he addressed to Edwin Robinson‚ another great American poet‚ tree times Pulitzer Prizes nominee. The reviews‚ mentioned above‚ have something
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University. Eventually‚ he left the United States for Sorbonne‚ England and returned to Harvard to study some more and ended up back in England where he became under the influence of Ezra Pound. Pound recognized Eliot’s poetic talent and assisted in many of his publications and influenced his work. What stood out to Pound was‚ perhaps‚ Eliot’s distinct style of writing created from his intense use of diction and lengthy sentences that often derived from metaphors. Eliot is known to write with
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