Class Room : Modernism Sem-3

  Hello readers here I am sharing my views on various poems. which is part of my classroom activity.

1) 'The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme

Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,

In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.

Now see I

That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy.

Oh, God, make small

The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,

That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

      In this poem writer recollecting his past time. In which he had gold heels on the hard pavement. He tries to say that now he do not has that blanket of pleasure,luxuries so he request to God to give a blanket of stars. But the blanket of God is in poor condition, but though there is a need of blanket suggest spirituality.

2.) ‘The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme

 

Darkness

I stop to watch a star shine

in the boghole -

A star no longer, but a silver

 light.

I look at it and pass on.

 

 

 

              Word "Darkness" itself describe night, sadness also 

 

connect with beauty of night, beauty of moon. It also 

 

describes peace of mind. Poet is not able to see stars; but 

 

there is "a silver ribbon of light" and poet looked it at that 

 

there is no stars but light is still be there. So here poet 

 

describe the beauty of  stars and night. 

 

 

 

3.) 'Image' - Edward Storer

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to a chaste white moon

Upon strange Pyres of loneliness and

drought

 

 

            The title suggest itself the image of Victorian age. 

 

Poem is depiction of forsaken lover is described.
 

The poem as per its title “Image” presents an image of the 

 

modern people and their way of living, they requires purity 

 

like moon.

 

 

 

4.) "In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the Crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough

 

 

         In this poem poet compares faces of people which he 

 

found in crowd with the "petals on a wet, black bough."

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 poet says about overpowering or colonizing 

 

someone. It is not alive because now it is there the net of 

 

somebody fish after going in the end 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.

             His poem's comparison is with love. Here the words 

 

"Trudging" and "Cheerily" give the image of life where we 

 

are doing many things unwilling.

 

 

 

               

7.) Morning at the Window - T. S. Eliot

They are rattling breakfast plates in basement

kitchens,

And along the trampled edges of the street

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaid

Sprouting despondentlyat area gates.

The brown waves of fog toss up to me

Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,

And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts

An aimless smile that hovers in the air

  

And vanishes along the level of the roofs.

 

 

 

            The whole poem has negative words. The word 

 

"Ratting" means vibrating shaking plates. Damp means in 

 

low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

 

 

 

 8.) The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chicken.

 

             

                    Red wheel, white chicken these all are symbols 

 

and through these poet try to say about human beings. It 

 

means be connected with white people and their life.

 

               

 

 

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 wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild.

The jar was round upon the ground

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.

The jar was gray and bare.

It did not give of bird or bush,

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

 

              

 

                    Comparison between artificiality and natural 

 

things.Good example of artificiality and natural thing is fast 

 

food and Natural home made food like. Here we can say 

 

that 

 

we equally live both the life. But now a days we all are 

 

 more 

 

attracted to artificial things. which is very harmful for us.So 

 

its better to be natural rather than artificial.

10.) ‘l (a‘-E. E. Cummings

l(a

le

af

fa

ll

s)

one

l

iness

 

  

               This poem reflects the modern time people were 

 

people living in one country together like leafs live on a tree 

 

but when they fall it is only their fall. There was not strong 

 

relation between them. One question pops up in my mind 

 

after reading this poem that Can we trust people or not.