I do not like them at all. I realize it is extremely unfair to justify modernist poetry as such since it served to bridge the conventional writing to the beat generation (awesome). Nevertheless, I do not like either it's style or content. William Carlos advocated for a revolution of style, claiming that only the meter/rhythm of the poetry carries the poetry's emotions, which I agree. But it's premature that it doesn't carry much excitement (Ginsberg's Howl did). It's in general very sadistic/melancholy/uninspired/inert. Content wise, modernist poetry doesn't have much that interests me (a love letter, I DON'T CARE MY MAN, I DON'T CARE). To me, literature should be a mind-blowing novel. Or very serious writing like The Prince. Modernist Poetry fall in either category. Feel free to debate/rip/support me.
Unlike Bruce, I actually really like the modernist poems that we read and studied. Although they are dark and melancholy, they still provide us with a new way to view the world. The view may not be happy or provide us with hope but I still like the idea that we must view the world for what it is- we must look at the world around us and not ignore things that may seem unimportant. For example, the poem about the red wheelbarrow was so simple but it really provided a lot of imagery within the few lines. This poem, along with others, demonstrates the modernist belief that we must not take the seemingly unimportant things around us fir nothing. Also, "The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock" was another poem that stuck out to me. I liked how, although the poem was very dark, Eliot managed to make the poem funny and positively memorable at the same time.
I really liked the poems! I loved T.S. Eliot's "The Love SOng of Alfred J Prufrock" in particular. I really enjoyed the way it sounded when you read it, and what he was trying to say. Like Bridget said, it may not be the most uplifting poem, but I think it really speaks some truth. I agree with the modernist idea that it's hard to define what truth is. Truth to one person may be different to another person.
I didn't like many of the modernist poems at first, because I couldn't figure out what was happening. However, when we were assigned Stevens's poems and actually analyzed them I realized I did like the poems. I especially liked the "13 way of looking at blackbird." I really liked how modernist poetry can interpret the ambiguousness of human mind, how different people can view things differently. At first when working on our project we wanted to find what the blackbird meant, but later on we discovered that the purpose of the poem was to show us that things not all the time mean one and only one thing. I really enjoyed reading the modernist poetry.
As with Kristina, I tried to analyse every detail of the poems. This did not help me understand them. I quickly became frustrated and did not like them. But as a steped back and thought of the poem as a whole, I began to see the picture more clearly. One of the things that I like about modernist poetry is that sometimes images are just images they do no represent something. I really liked this idea that in a poem everything does not have to be a symbol it can just be it. This is evident in Steven Wallace's Thirteen Ways at Looking at a Blackbird. I liked his message that a thing like a black bird can be interpreted in so many different ways.
I do not like them at all. I realize it is extremely unfair to justify modernist poetry as such since it served to bridge the conventional writing to the beat generation (awesome). Nevertheless, I do not like either it's style or content. William Carlos advocated for a revolution of style, claiming that only the meter/rhythm of the poetry carries the poetry's emotions, which I agree. But it's premature that it doesn't carry much excitement (Ginsberg's Howl did). It's in general very sadistic/melancholy/uninspired/inert. Content wise, modernist poetry doesn't have much that interests me (a love letter, I DON'T CARE MY MAN, I DON'T CARE). To me, literature should be a mind-blowing novel. Or very serious writing like The Prince. Modernist Poetry fall in either category. Feel free to debate/rip/support me.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Bruce, I actually really like the modernist poems that we read and studied. Although they are dark and melancholy, they still provide us with a new way to view the world. The view may not be happy or provide us with hope but I still like the idea that we must view the world for what it is- we must look at the world around us and not ignore things that may seem unimportant. For example, the poem about the red wheelbarrow was so simple but it really provided a lot of imagery within the few lines. This poem, along with others, demonstrates the modernist belief that we must not take the seemingly unimportant things around us fir nothing. Also, "The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock" was another poem that stuck out to me. I liked how, although the poem was very dark, Eliot managed to make the poem funny and positively memorable at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the poems! I loved T.S. Eliot's "The Love SOng of Alfred J Prufrock" in particular. I really enjoyed the way it sounded when you read it, and what he was trying to say. Like Bridget said, it may not be the most uplifting poem, but I think it really speaks some truth. I agree with the modernist idea that it's hard to define what truth is. Truth to one person may be different to another person.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like many of the modernist poems at first, because I couldn't figure out what was happening. However, when we were assigned Stevens's poems and actually analyzed them I realized I did like the poems. I especially liked the "13 way of looking at blackbird." I really liked how modernist poetry can interpret the ambiguousness of human mind, how different people can view things differently. At first when working on our project we wanted to find what the blackbird meant, but later on we discovered that the purpose of the poem was to show us that things not all the time mean one and only one thing. I really enjoyed reading the modernist poetry.
ReplyDeleteAs with Kristina, I tried to analyse every detail of the poems. This did not help me understand them. I quickly became frustrated and did not like them. But as a steped back and thought of the poem as a whole, I began to see the picture more clearly. One of the things that I like about modernist poetry is that sometimes images are just images they do no represent something. I really liked this idea that in a poem everything does not have to be a symbol it can just be it. This is evident in Steven Wallace's Thirteen Ways at Looking at a Blackbird. I liked his message that a thing like a black bird can be interpreted in so many different ways.
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