Modern Poetry (Critical Appreciation)
Modern poetry (Critical Appreciation)
Modern poetry has followed totally different traditions from the romantic and Victorian tradition of poetry. All ages have certain concepts regarding poetry, relating to the poetical subjects, the poetical materials and poetical modes. Greek preconceptions regarding poetry were established by great romantic Poets-Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. According to them, there were only two nerves in poetry, namely the sublime and pathetic. that's why Herbert Spencer, William Shakespeare and John Milton got a higher place as poets then Dryden and Pope who were merely the men of wit and common sense and had nothing of the transcendentally elegant or pathetic in them.
Nineteenth-century poetry is understood for its preoccupation with the dream world, as we discover in Keats “La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, Tennyson’s “The girl of Shalott and Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”. However, such norms couldn't get favour with the poets and critics of the twentieth century on account of the unconventional changes that had taken place. Due to the strain of recent conditions, poets could not take the dream habit seriously. They were aware of the change which crawled in on account of the scientific and Technical discoveries. Tennyson, for example, expressed in his Poems more of a spirit of withdrawal and escape, than of confronting the problems faced by his age. The explicit message of the “The Palace of Art” verse form is that escape isn't attainable. However, rather transferring this message, his verse stands for withdrawal and escape. Similarly, songs of Swinburne lacks the tendency of preciseness and genuineness of Shelley’s ideas. The modern poets additionally handled the theme of War extravagantly. Wilfred Owen’s poetry main theme is war and therefore the horrors of wars. T.S Eliot “The Waste Land” is stuffed with chaos and depicts the hollowness of recent civilization. Use of symbolism, broken images incomplete characters delineation is an integral a part of modern poetry.
Being the harbinger of modern poetry, Elliott used an entirely different methodology of writing poetry. is subject matter is of streets and houses and people and not of woods and Fields and flowers he introduces characters like Prufrock comma Sweeney and Gerontion; they are representative of corrupt comma rotten and money grabbing materialistic civilization. he has adopted a mythical method to convey his message to his audience. By employing this method Elliott has shown that the problems of the present day are not many. Such problems were faced by man in the past. They found out a certain solution which could be tried out today. If we profit by the experience and wisdom of the past, we may be able to survive. The past shows that there have been periods of spiritual decay. He has used both Pagan and Christian myths. For example, from Egypt, he borrowed the fertility ritual myth. The Christian myth is about the sinfulness of man and sufferings of Christ in the atonement of man’s sin and resurrection. The resurrection of Christ is a symbol of man survival and prosperity.
Like WB Yeats, we find traditional symbols abundantly in Eliot's poetry. They might be called stocks symbols because everyone understands its significance. In the wasteland dry bones signify spiritual decay and death. Destitute and foulness of contemporary civilization is depicted by the use of rat symbols. He also made use of private symbols. All such images convey the complicated nature of contemporary town life. In the “Lovesong of Prufrock”, image of a patient etherized upon the table”, where he is lying conscious but conscious of nothing. This is the state of Prufrock’s mind. Similarly, the movement of fog is represented by the slow March of a cat. There are many other symbols and sometimes they are used in a different and opposite sense. Fire, for example, stands for destruction. It also is a mean of purification like the purging flame. In short, modern poetry stands completely different in terms of diction, style and subject matter from the Romantics. To sum up, T.S.Eliot desires to bring poetry out of the land of rainbows and Daffodils to the word of factory chimneys, pubs, and all the things to which we are surrounded today.
Modern poetry has followed totally different traditions from the romantic and Victorian tradition of poetry. All ages have certain concepts regarding poetry, relating to the poetical subjects, the poetical materials and poetical modes. Greek preconceptions regarding poetry were established by great romantic Poets-Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. According to them, there were only two nerves in poetry, namely the sublime and pathetic. that's why Herbert Spencer, William Shakespeare and John Milton got a higher place as poets then Dryden and Pope who were merely the men of wit and common sense and had nothing of the transcendentally elegant or pathetic in them.
Nineteenth-century poetry is understood for its preoccupation with the dream world, as we discover in Keats “La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, Tennyson’s “The girl of Shalott and Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”. However, such norms couldn't get favour with the poets and critics of the twentieth century on account of the unconventional changes that had taken place. Due to the strain of recent conditions, poets could not take the dream habit seriously. They were aware of the change which crawled in on account of the scientific and Technical discoveries. Tennyson, for example, expressed in his Poems more of a spirit of withdrawal and escape, than of confronting the problems faced by his age. The explicit message of the “The Palace of Art” verse form is that escape isn't attainable. However, rather transferring this message, his verse stands for withdrawal and escape. Similarly, songs of Swinburne lacks the tendency of preciseness and genuineness of Shelley’s ideas. The modern poets additionally handled the theme of War extravagantly. Wilfred Owen’s poetry main theme is war and therefore the horrors of wars. T.S Eliot “The Waste Land” is stuffed with chaos and depicts the hollowness of recent civilization. Use of symbolism, broken images incomplete characters delineation is an integral a part of modern poetry.
Being the harbinger of modern poetry, Elliott used an entirely different methodology of writing poetry. is subject matter is of streets and houses and people and not of woods and Fields and flowers he introduces characters like Prufrock comma Sweeney and Gerontion; they are representative of corrupt comma rotten and money grabbing materialistic civilization. he has adopted a mythical method to convey his message to his audience. By employing this method Elliott has shown that the problems of the present day are not many. Such problems were faced by man in the past. They found out a certain solution which could be tried out today. If we profit by the experience and wisdom of the past, we may be able to survive. The past shows that there have been periods of spiritual decay. He has used both Pagan and Christian myths. For example, from Egypt, he borrowed the fertility ritual myth. The Christian myth is about the sinfulness of man and sufferings of Christ in the atonement of man’s sin and resurrection. The resurrection of Christ is a symbol of man survival and prosperity.
Like WB Yeats, we find traditional symbols abundantly in Eliot's poetry. They might be called stocks symbols because everyone understands its significance. In the wasteland dry bones signify spiritual decay and death. Destitute and foulness of contemporary civilization is depicted by the use of rat symbols. He also made use of private symbols. All such images convey the complicated nature of contemporary town life. In the “Lovesong of Prufrock”, image of a patient etherized upon the table”, where he is lying conscious but conscious of nothing. This is the state of Prufrock’s mind. Similarly, the movement of fog is represented by the slow March of a cat. There are many other symbols and sometimes they are used in a different and opposite sense. Fire, for example, stands for destruction. It also is a mean of purification like the purging flame. In short, modern poetry stands completely different in terms of diction, style and subject matter from the Romantics. To sum up, T.S.Eliot desires to bring poetry out of the land of rainbows and Daffodils to the word of factory chimneys, pubs, and all the things to which we are surrounded today.
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