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-Modernist Poetry-. Philip Janikowski. -Elements of the Movement- {Driving Values}. Took place between 1890-1918 In Europe Took place between 1918-1930 in America - Catered to the need to break oneself from the past and look towards the future.
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-Modernist Poetry- Philip Janikowski
-Elements of the Movement-{Driving Values} • Took place between 1890-1918 In Europe • Took place between 1918-1930 in America -Catered to the need to break oneself from the past and look towards the future. -Writers often times rejected literary traditions that seemed outdated and diction that seemed too proper and subtle to suit an era of technological advancements and global violence (WWI). • Life took a faster pace and poets wanted to reflect this within their writing.
-Elements of the Movement-{Influenced By} • Writings and poets majorly influenced by the emergence of new art forms. -Artists and thinkers began converging in European cities as well as cities in general and a melding of the arts occurred. • It was an era influenced by the critical mind -Major artist and writers were questioning and re-inventing their art forms. -Artist developed more “modern” ways of thinking, and thus created this new artphilosophy.
-Elements of the Movement-{Influence On} • Modernist poetry had a major influence on the visual arts. -Collages, symbols began appearing within poetry. • Poets such as Ezra Pound also wrote operas and musical scores using modernist poet techniques.
-Major Poets-{Ezra Pound} • Known to be the originator of the modernist form of poetry. • Promoted Imagism. -Derived from the techniques of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry favoring clarity and straight forward diction vs. traditional rhyme and meter.
-Major Poets-{Ezra Pound} • Born on October 30, 1885 in Idaho, United States of America. • Got accepted and began studying at Penn State at age of 15. -While studying there he met and befriended William Carlos Williams as well as H.D. • Greatly influenced by William Butler Yeats while working and living with him in England. -Yeats and Pound studied Chinese and Japanese works together leading to the popularization of Imagism. • Befriended T.S. Eliot while in England. • He also coined the term “vorticism” (twentieth century British art movement stemming from cubism). • Began the The Cantos (his most distinguished work) in 1915 which took 50 years to complete.
-Major Poets-{Ezra Pound} • Moved to Paris in 1920. -Became friends with Marcel Duchamp and other artists of the DADA and surrealist movement, and Ernest Hemmingway. • Moved to Italy in 1924. -Became acquainted with Mussolini and spoke regularly on Italian radio in support of fascism. • Brought back to U.S. to face charges of treason -Plead insanity and was transferred to St. Elizabeth's hospital in 1946-1958.
-Major Poets-{William Carlos Williams} • One of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. • Greatly influenced by Ezra Pound. • Believed in the average individual. -Broke off from European culture and traditions. -Wrote about everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
-Major Poets-{William Carlos Williams} • Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. • Began writing in High school where he decided to become a writer and a doctor. • Studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound. -In 1913 Pound published William’s second collection of works The Tempers. • Williams sustained a practice in New Jersey the whole of his life. • His influence as a poet spread slowly during the twenties and thirties, however, he was pushed to the shadows due to the increasing popularity of T.S. Eliot. • Williams’ health began to decline after a heart attack in 1948 and a series of strokes, but he continued writing up until his death in New Jersey in 1963.
-Major Poets-{T.S. Eliot} • Eliot took the ideas that he loved of the 17th and 19th century poets and he redefined their techniques to suit a more realistic world. • Captured the discontent of the post WWI society while enforcing values in a concise poetic manner.
-Major Poets-{T.S. Eliot} • Born in Missouri on September 26, 1888. • Studied at Harvard, contributed in the “Harvard Advocate.” • Moved to England in 1914. -While in England ha befriended Ezra Pound, who assisted him in publishing his first major work The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in 1915. • Wrote The Wasteland (the most influential work of the 20th century) after suffering a mental breakdown. -The writing is most well known for its form and lack of transitions (fragmentary).
-Sample Poems- • And the days are not full enough -Ezra Pound And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass • An Immorality -Ezra Pound Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having. Though I have been in many a land, There is naught else in living. And I would rather have my sweet, Though rose-leaves die of grieving, Than do high deeds in Hungary To pass all men's believing.
-Summative Analysis- • Themes/Messages • Excitement in innovation, re-structure, and self reliance. • New take on philosophy; revision of western philosophy towards a new eastern outlook, through an artistic lens. • Surrounded WWI and the disenchanted outlook of the youth. • Literary Canon • Break with traditional poetic values. • Rejection of rhythm and tempo.
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