Modern Poetry – Trends/ Tendencies

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Modern Poetry – Trends/ Tendencies

Changing social outlook influenced perspective of modern writers . Poets – new sensibility – did not want to continue prevailing poetic trends

DECLINE AND INNOVATION A.C WARD - decline in poetry after Tennyson . As civilization advances , poetry declines but there have been innumerable poets , many of them making exemplary contribution to the rich heritage of English poetry …….

… Lot of experimentation , innovation , many movements , schools , groups appeared and Disappeared e.g Imagism,Surrealism etc . Some poets stuck to the traditional forms . Some combined tradition and innovation . Innovators like Eliot also influenced by poets before them .

THEMES Almost anything – from the telephone , car to the universe . Not only beautiful . But as T.S Eliot puts it, Poet should be able to see “ beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom , the horror and the glory .” Themes and moods – real life , religion , mysticism , fairy land .

HUMANITARIANISM AND DEMOCRATIC NOTE Realisation of the sad realities of life . led to a note of fellowfeeling and humanitarianism . Modern poet talks of the life of labourers, toilers, field workers . Voices indignation against social repression Strains of socialism/ communism . Masefield , Gibson , Galsworthy .

Realism Reaction against the pseudo romanticism of the last century . Sees and writes life as it is , beauty and ugliness Facts like prostitution , wars , terror , brutality , slum dwellers . (unpoetic themes till now) Poets of Realism – Robert Frost , Edmund Blunden , Gibson , John Masefield War Poets – Siegfried Sassoon , Rupert Brooke , Wilfred Owen .

PESSIMISM Age of anxiety Note of pessimism and disillusionment in modern poetry . Two wars – gloomy shadow . Pettiness of human life Tragedy and suffering of downtrodden . Disillusionment Materialism , tensions . (Houseman , Hardy , Huxley , Eliot Not self pity but intellectual and impersonal perssimism

ROMANTIC ELEMENT IN MODERN POETS Inspite of Realism , Pessimism . Some poets do show romantic tendencies . (Walter De La Mare , James E Flecker , Yeats , Masefield , Edward Thomas ) Romantic spirit touched with supernatural (fairies) and Mythical Splendour .

RELIGION AND MYSTICISM Also find place in modern poetry . Flame of religion and mysticism kept alive . Francis Thompson , Robert Graves , G.K Chesterton , W.B Yeats , George Russell

LOVE Fine poems/lyrics of love also written . But few despair fulfilment . John Masefield , Robert Bridges , Arthur Symonds , Yeats

NATURE Nature fascinating , as opposed to the ugliness and drabness of an industrialised and over sophisticated world . Modern part of nature not a Mystic- does not find spiritual meaning in nature . But elated ,charmed at nature’s loveliness . John Masefield , Robert Bridges , Edmund Blunden .

COMPLEXITY AND PSYCHOLOGY Psychology complexity Difficult imagery Interest in subconscious working

DICTION/STYLE Simple , direct expressions . Words chosen for their association and meaning . “Vers Libre “ – Free verse .

Literature is life . Modern Poetry is reflection of Modern Life . Realistic in tone . Expresses spirit of age .

(All material put together from various books and material from the net) THANK YOU