Activity: Modernist poems : identify modernist metaphor in these short poems.

  Modernist poems : Identify  modernist metaphor in these short poems :

 ☆ Introduction:

    Modernist poetry  arose in response  to the flowery  language  typical of Victorian  and Romantic  literature.  Click here  

☆   Ten  short poems :  Indentify  andModernist Metaphor  in these  short poems:

《1》 "The  Embankment"   T .E. Hulme Click here. 

 " The Embankment "  masterpiece  poem. This poem written around 1908-9. While Hulme was an active members  of the poet. 

 

"(The fantasia  of a fallen gentleman  on a cold  it her night.)

  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. "

  The first  word  "fallen  gentlemen "   reflect  on his past and how he  found  pleasure  in worldly  social  activities.  " suggesting musical  gatherings, such as  dance."   "Flash of gold heels  on the  hard pavement "  so this line  suggests   courtesans  or prostitutes  now we can see this   21th century.  

 Metaphor  of this poem:

    

   {1} Flash of Gold    {2} Musical  Gatherings like dance.

     {3} old star : breathtaking  new life

  

    Poet  said  that  human  always  like luxury.  Luxury  is  main  symbol  of the this poem.

《2》Darkness:    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. " 

 

 Campbell  was  anIrish poet.  This poem  related to  modernist poetry.  This poem's  metaphor  like Darkness.  Star is the symbol  of light.This poem also suggests   civilization  of the society. 

《3》Image : Edward  storer

      

   " Forsaken  lovers. 

  Burning  to a chaste  white  moon

Upon strange  pyres of loneliness and drought. "

 Love is main metaphor  of this poem.  And  loneliness  symbol  of froskan lovers

   

《4》The pool  : Hilda Doolittle 

    "Are  you  a live?

   I touch  you 

You quiver  trembling  like a sea -fish

I cover you with my net

What are you -banded one? "

    This  poem  also  same to  the T.S.Eliot " The weste Land" The poet  drawn  image of the store of  water. And water  is the symbol of  purity.  

《5》  In a station of the Metro:  Ezra pound 

   

"The  apparition  of these faces in the crowd;

  Petals  on a  wet , black  bough." 

    Metro  station  symbol  of routine  life of  people.  The poet describe  the  machinical  lofe of  hardworker's life.  Petals  word use for people  and   black  bough  word use for culture   living  dead.

《6》Insouciance :  Richard Adlington 

 "  In  and out of the dreary trenches 

   Trudging  cheering  under the stars

  I make for myself  little poems

 Delicate  as a flock  of doves

The fly  like white - wings  doves."

 

  This  poem symbolizes down humanity.   Dreary trenches    word imagine down  of people's life.       

《7》Morning  at the window: T.S.Eliot

 

" The are ratting breakfast plates in               basement  kitchen. 

And along the trampled edges of the  street 

I am aware of the damp souls  of housemind

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. "

  This poem  has nature poem. But this  poem  also give the many  ideas.   T.S.Eliot  describes  morning  time in this poem. So  morning  time has symbol  of  the new and  Rebirth  of humn. Morning  has  not aimless smile.

《8》The Red wheelbarrow :   William Carlos  Williams 

 

  "  So much depends upon 

    A red wheel borrow

    Glazed with rain water

     Beside the white chicken."

        

     The poet  use of metaphor  in this poem like, rain  nature,  water.   Wheelbarrow  is connected  with Fleming.

  《9》 Anecdote   of the Jar: Wallace  Stevens 

 "  I placed a jar in Tennessee,

  And round it war, upon a hill.

  It madd the slovenly  wilderness   surrounding  tha hill.

 The wilderness  rose up to it,

 And sprawled  around, no longer  wild.

 The jar was round  uponthe ground

 And tall and of a port in air.

 It took dominion everywhere. 

 It did not give of bird or buch.

 Like nothing  else Tennessee. "

 

    This  poem has imagary poem.  So  jar has  symbol  of   state. The  poet  talk  about  the  small   story about  the jar. Jar  as  plase.

  

《10》' I'  (a'  - E.E.Cummings

 " I ( a...leaf falls on loneliness)

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    The poet describe  loneliness.  And  leaf  fall     on loneliness.  Depression  aslo  connected with  loneliness.  Loneliness  has  main  symbol  of  this poem. 

    Thank you...