POETRY MOVEMENT
Sharde Ibrahim
Raymon Camitan
Renz De Castro
Kevin Julian
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Stenographic Figure by Jackson Pollock
Movement occurred between 1890 and
1950 or even later. It is usually said to
have begun with the French
Symbolist movement and it artificially
ends with the Second World War
The questions of impersonality and
objectivity seem to be crucial to
Modernist poetry
It was essential to move away from the
merely personal towards an intellectual
statement that poetry could make about
the world where they distilled the
personal into a poetic texture that claimed
universal human significance
The speaker himself is uncertain about
his or her own ontological bearings
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Notable works include: • The Past is the Present •
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The Paper Nautilus
The Pangolin
Born in Kirkwood, Missouri on November
15, 1887, & passed away from a series of
strokes in 1972.
Came to the attention of poets as diverse as:
- Wallace Stevens
- William Carlos Williams
- T. S. Eliot
- Ezra Pound beginning with her
first publication in 1915
In 1933, Moore was awarded the Helen Haire
Levinson Prize for poetry.
Moore became a minor celebrity in New
York literary circles. She attended boxing
matches, baseball games and other public
events.
In 1996, she was inducted into the St. Louis
Walk of Fame.
I, too, dislike it: there are things that
are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect
contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important
not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be
put we cannot understand: the
batholding on upside down or in
quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse
taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic
twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the baseball fan, the statistician--
← Irony: Says she dislikes poetry
but expresses it through a poem.
← Hyperbole: She cant completely
hate poetry.
← Comparing these significant parts
to significant objects in poetry.
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business
documents and
school-books'; all these phenomena
are important. One must make a
distinction
however: when dragged into
prominence by half poets, the result is
not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present
Suggests that real poetry should → for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with
present "Imaginary gardens with real real toads in them,’ shall
toads in them" we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on
the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
• Born 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey
and died 1963
• He studied medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania
• Was closely associated
with modernism and imagism
• Was also a revolutionary figure in
American poetry
• He wanted his poetic line to reflect the
rhythm of everyday speech and drew his
subject matter from ordinary
surroundings
• His work is comprised of short stories,
poems, and plays
• Consciously wrote poetry that provided
a counterpoint to that
of Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and
T.S. Eliot
Notable works include:
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Apology
The Red Wheelbarrow
A Sort of a Song
The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
and refuse to let go
or driven like hail
stream bitterly out to one side
and fall
where the salvias, hard carmine-like no leaf that ever was-edge the bare garden. .
← Personification: Leaves are personified
since they are not actually holding onto
something.
← Simile: Used to demonstrate the intensity
of the wind
← Diction : describes the intensity in color of
the salvia, a hallucinogen plant.
Imagery: Emphasizes the modernism, as
imagery was used to get away from realism.
The title itself, "Approach of Winter," is
preparing for the future, which Modernists
believed in, or Futurism.
• Real name was Edward Estlin
Cummings
• Born on October 14, 1894 and died
September 3, 1962.
• Well known for his extreme
experimentation, particularly in
regards to grammar, punctuation
and physical structure
• Refused to let himself be
constrained by tradition, and
expressed himself in the way that
best embodied himself as poet and
artist
Notable works include:
• "Gay" is the captivating cognomen
• i like my body when it is with your
• between the breasts
Buffalo Bill 's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
Much in the way of stream-of-consciousness, cummings scoffs at
traditional punctuation, jamming some words together
(“onetwothreefourfive” and “pigeonsjustlikethat”) and breaking
the sentences across the page.
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Wallace Stevens was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879.
The son of a prosperous lawyer
He graduated with a degree from New York
Law School in 1903 and was admitted to the
U.S. Bar in 1904.
Stevens was concerned with the transformative
power of the imagination
“Imagination" is not equivalent to
consciousness nor is "reality" equivalent to the
world as it exists outside our minds. Reality is
the product of the imagination as it shapes the
world. Because it is constantly changing as we
attempt to find imaginatively satisfying ways to
perceive the world, reality is an activity, not a
static object.
Notable works include:
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The Snow Man (1921)
Harmonium (1923)
Ideas of Order (1936)
Owl's Clover (1936)
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Parts of a World (1942)
Transport to Summer (1947)
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)
Collected Poems (1954)
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
← Symbolism: The muscular man
symbolizes the physicality and sexuality that is
left when one dies.
← The emperor of ice cream is referred to as
a godlike deity that overlooks life. Stevens
relates ice cream to life because ice cream
melts over time and is temporary.
Diction : Wallace Stevens chooses words that
subtly reinforce his theme. For example, words
that suggest sensuality and appetite
are muscular, concupiscent, ice cream, and wenches.
Theme: life is too short to let pass any
opportunity to engage in pleasurable activity
Prompt: Carefully read and analyze the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow". Despite its
briefness, the poem is one of William Carlos Williams' most famous poems. What literary
device is utilized in order to get the effect demonstrated and how does it relate to the methods of
Williams? What is the significance of the form the poem is written in? Explain.
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Prompt: The Modernist movement began in the late 1890’s – early 1900’s. It was
the time of revolutions, technological advances, and social changes. Read the following
poemcarefully. Then, write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the techniques
the poet uses to convey how these changes affected the movement.
Approach of Winter
The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
and refuse to let go
or driven like hail
stream bitterly out to one
side
and fall
where the salvias, hard
carmine-like no leaf that ever was-edge the bare garden. .
- William Carlos Williams
Prompt: Why was the movement criticized? What for? For instance, some people
believe that the notion “modernism” did not actually exist at those particular times.
Why?
Read and analyze the following poem The Red Wheelbarrow by William
Carlos Wialliams carefully. Despite the briefness of the poem, what is the
significance of the poem, and what effect does the poem have on people.
Analyze and describe the literary devices used to add emphasis to the meaning.
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
1. What kind of literature did modernism reject?
2. Name one of the authors that Williams consciously wrote counterpoints against in
his writing.
3. What were the main characteristic of Modern poetry?
4. Which event heavily influenced the Modernist movement?
5. What particular literary technique was Modernism best known for?
6. In William Carlos Williams's "A Red Wheelbarrow," Williams turns ordinary
________, into ________?
7. In what ways are Modern poetry a reaction against Victorian poetry?
Romanticism and
Victorian literature
There’s no structure, just
free verse
Robert Frost, Ezra
Pound, or T.S. Eliot
World War I
Imagery
Sentences into poems
Victorian poetry emphasizes formal diction
and formalism, while Modern poetry is free
verse and has no specific structure
• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/96
• http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poetry/
• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wallacestevenshttp://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/124
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens
• http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/approach-of-winter/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams
• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/119
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummingshttp://famouspoetsandpo
ems.com/poets/e__e__cummings
• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176654