Poets of the Modern Age

Topic : Poets of the Modern Age.

Name : Makwana Ankita M.

Roll No : 01.

Paper No :9.(The Modern Age)

Semester : 3.

Year : 2013-14.    

Submitted To :Department of English

v Introduction.

v Time-1901- 2000

Ø The Modern Age is different from the Victorian Age. Thus the year 1901 can be fixed as the year marking the end of the Victorian age and the beginning of the Modern Age. It is one of the most turbulent eras in the history of English Literature. It is an Age of Scientific. The Modern Age is the most complex, complicated and revolutionary age in the history of the world.

v     Modernism as a cultural movement.

v Artistic, architecture and literary moment and movement making the early decades of the 20^th century. This Age is also including: Imagism, cubism, Expressionism, impressionism.

v     Poets and Poetry.

v There are many poets of this Age like…T.S Eliot, W.B Yeats, John Masefield etc….poetry of the 1900-1922 period is often read under two poetry.

      

1) Edwardian Poet.

Ø These all are Edwardian poets.

     1).Thomas Hardy.

Ø He was famous for his fiction. He also wrote some war poetry.

Ø Some of his war poems.

1)Channel Firing

2)The Man He Killed

222)Robert Brooke 

Ø Rupert Brooke is another poet of this poetry. He wrote only five poems about war. He was famous for his war poems. The most celebrated of these two poems is the sentimental sonnet ‘The Soldier’.

Ø      Henry New bolt, John Davidson, Thomas Edward these all are also good writer of this poetry.

2).Georgian Poetry.

Ø The Georgian poets reacted against the decade’s transitional poetry. Rupert Brooke planned to publish a volume of poem as a “work of twelve different writers”. The publication of this volume, edited The Georgian Poetry. This poetry appeared between 1912 and 1922.

Ø Aim of this Poetry.

Ø The main aim of this poetry is…

“On a new strength and beauty”.

Ø According to A.S.Collins…

“The Georgians had, of course, a positive aim. It was to treat natural thing ….”

Ø Georgian Poets.

1). John Masefield.

Ø He was a central poet of this poetry.

Ø His works…

       1. Ballads and poems

       2. England Beginning and Wandering

       3. The Salt Water Ballads.

v He also beautifully combined romance with realism.

2).Walter De La Mare.

v He was an eminent Georgian poet. Childhood band its

Fantasies as well as death and melancholic these all are chief characteristics of de la Mare’s poetry.

v He was a great lyric poet.

v     Another poet of this age.

v     W.B.Yeats.

Ø Yeats was a voluminous poet. Yeats was deeply influenced by Indian Philosophy and mysticism. His last poems, The Black Tower and Under Ben Bulben to indicate the influence of Indian thought. He resorted to…

“Imaginative mysticism which is the essential attribute of celtricim”.

Ø His style is compact and closely woven.

v     T.S.Eliot.

Ø He was greatest poet of this age. The first volume of Eliot poetry Prufrock and other observations appearedin 1917.His famous poem “The Waste -Land” this poem is one of the best poem of this Age.

Ø This poem divided into FIVE parts…

1. The Burial of the Dead

2. A Game of Chess

3. The Fire Sermon

4. Death by Water

5. What the Thunder Said

Ø T.S.Eliot is a classicist. In The Waste Land and The Hollwo Man he describes the spiritual degeneration of Man.

v     Conclusion.

Ø T.S.Eliot is one of the most famous poets of this Age. Some of the oxford poets are…W.H.Auden, Stephen Spender these all are Known as oxford poets. Roy Campbell’spoetry is vigorous and satiric.