Modernist poems.

Modernist poems.

December 03, 2016

Respected sir,

1.) ‘The Embankment‘- 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.

      “ The Embankment’- The fantasia of a fallen Gentleman on a cold,bitter night.’fallen gentleman's reflects on his past and how he found pleasure in worldly social activities.The narrator's calling himself a “fallen Gentleman”.the war 'finesse of fiddles’ suggesting musical gathering and flash of gold heels on the hard pavement us use her beautiful women.she is prostitute.

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.



            In this poem poets talks about darkness.darkness is symbole of night so,night also present darkness in sky.There is word “star”wired.

3.) 'Image' - Edward Storer

          Forsaken lovers,
       Burning to a chaste white moon
       Upon strange Pyres of loneliness and
       drought.

In this poem as well, poet uses aunty-archetype IMAGE. Generally, the moon is used as the connecting chain between two lovers. And it gives such piece of mind. But here, poet says that the lovers are burning to white moon. Though the intimate feelings are there between lovers, still they are forsaken and lonely.

4.) "In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the Crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough

--Ezra Pound have beautifully portrayed the station of Metro and people of the metro as well. The faces are visible only for few seconds and at last it is out from the memory. The same way it is captured in very two lines.

5.               The pool- Hilda Doolittle.

The poet is puzzled by a pool which comes alive when he touches it. He recognizes it as being a living breathing sea creature that is full of promise. The pool is banded in light and dark depending on movement much like a fish. Sometimes we can’t understand from which feelings we are gone through. We don’t know what our emotions mean. Throughout our life we can’t identify that who we are and what we want from life.? And in that situation it might be satisfying to have someone that pull us close and help us to understand as the poet says in the last line; “what are you banded one.?”

6.               Insounciance- Richard Aldington.

The poet wants to free from responsibilities and want to fly on the sky. He look at the sky and cheerful stars and think that they are freely live in the sky. and here in the earth he is suffering from dreary trenches. And for him he writes poem that can help him to fly.

7.) Morning at the Window - 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 housemaid
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.

-- The picture is that of a morning . T. S. Eloit is writing the poem from the point of the housemaid who is constantly engaged with lots of work.

8.) The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chicken.

9.) Anecdote of the Jar- 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.

-- poet is trying to hung at the bank of Tennessee but nothing he was able to catch.

10.) ‘l (a‘- E. E. Cummings
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness

-- This is the best poem amongst all given here. Poet have marvelously captured the image of falling leaves in the poem. Words even are falling in the poem, just like leaf. . Broken into pieces, and with that word and leaf, loneliness also fals and spreads in the mind of reader

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