1. Modern Poetry

2. Famous Modern Poets T.S. Eliot e.e. cummings William Carlos Williams
Langston Hughes
Ezra Pound

3. Characteristics of Modern Poetry
Modernist Poetry is characterized by EXPERIMENTATION
Modernist writers tried to break away from the standard rules, traditions and conventions.

4. Modernist Poetry: Imagism
In 1912,a ,a manifesto on
Modernist poetry appeared in
The Chicago Magazine.
The ideas on poetry found in
this manifesto are the seed for the poetic movement known as IMAGISM.

5. Imagism: Main Principles
Imagist poets defend three main ideas:
Direct treatment of the things (avoid ornaments,frills or fuss).
Exclusion of superflous words (precission and economy of expression)

6. Imagism: Main Principles
Use of Free Verse (emphasis on the natural rythm of the language rather than on the sequence of a metronome).