Question

about modern poetry in eng literature

Answer 1

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its emphasis on traditional formalism and ornate diction. In many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in Preface to Lyrical Ballads to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticising the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman.

Answer 2

Modern Poetry contains a “high degree of self-awareness.” 
Modern Poetry specializes in the ability to “universalize the particular.” 
Modern Poetry is “personal.” 
Modern Poetry is not very concerned with being “accessible.”  
Modern Poetry isn’t aiming to be outstanding rhetoric.  
Modern Poetry is neither
(in the old school sense) or prose (in the sense of being straightforward communication). 
Modern Poetry is not attempting to convey Grandeur or Dignity
Modern Poetry is sick of the abstract............


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