A study of Modernist Poetry.

1) The Embankment -
        The Embankment past has something to give you at present . - this poem is all about dark side behind the light of the artificiality. - star comes as negative sight here that ultimately though has shining get disappear.

2.) "Darkness" - Joseph Campbell
     
               Darkness
        I stop to watch a star shine
        in the boghole -
        A star no longer, but a silver
         ribbon of light.
        I look at it and pass on.

--Modernist poets are best known for going against the tradition. Here also we can see that poet is using ANTI-ARCHITYPAL IMAGE regarding stars in the sky. Star is something which we comment with positive energy, great source of light n power. But here poet takes it as -
        A star no longer, but a silver
         ribbon of light.

3) “Image” – Edward Storer
Forsaken lovers,
Burning to a chaste white moon,
Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought...

In this poem the title again itself reflects the modern metaphor. In this poem both lovers are burning to white moon and they are forsaken and lonely.
 

4.) "In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound
      
  The apparition of these faces in the Crowd;
  Petals on a wet, black bough

Here “Metro” itself is a symbol of Modernism and the crowd represents the people. So here we can say that it represents the people who are living physically but mentally they all are dead because of their daily hasty schedule. “Bough” is a branch of a tree, and here he used “black bough” which means the dead branch of a tree (culture). Here society is a tree and branch is culture.

5.) 'The Pool' - Hilda Doolittle

       Are you alive?
       I touch you
       You quiver trembling like a sea-fish
       I cover you with my net
       What are you- banded one?

-- Here I can read the sarcasm. Its about overpowering or colonising someone. First it was asked that are you alive or not. Very sarcastically, we can see that no. It is not alive. Because now it is there in the net of somebody. Fish after going in the net, cannot survive for longer.

6) "Insouciance" – Richard Aldington

      In and out of the dreary trenches
     Trudging cheerily under the stars
       I make for myself little poems
       Delicate as a flock of doves
       They fly away like white-winged
        Doves.

--In this poem, poet compares his poems with dove. It flies far away from himself and at last, it becomes difficult to say that it was mine.

7) Morning at the window - morning at the window signs towards the way of living , without end , purpose ,if you try to pass your life then it can't provide us that real joy of life that actually we have to. - Ethusiasm only has chances to wait for death with new spirit within.

8) The Red wheel barrow - two sides of life , negative & positive reflects here. - Hardships of life turns to reliefs. - Dying stage is the ultimate way of living life throughout.

9.) Anecdote of the Jar- Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,   
And round it was, upon a hill. 
It made the slovenly wilderness 
Surround that hill...

The poem is about the state “Tennessee” in the United States of America. The word “dominion” suggests that the jar which poet put at hill has made its place strong slowly.There was nothing which can be produced by jar, but still it was dominion on the hill.

10.) ‘l (a‘- E. E. Cummings
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one
l
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The poen can be a lot ofconfusing for the first time. It is about the experiment with structure of poem and poet's play of words. “a leaf falls” reflectes the disconnection of people with nature and isolation with natural world.