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Modernist Poetry - Context Flashcards

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When did Virginia Woolf say the modernist period began?

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“On or about December 1910”

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What did the modernist movement mean for poetry?

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A rejecting of literary traditions and experimenting with form, structure and content.

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What revolutionary things were invented/discovered that influenced the modernist movement?

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  • automobiles
  • aeroplanes
  • Einsteins theories - transformed knowledge on the universe- was shown to be more complex
  • artistic movements - cubism, constructivism, futurism - Matisse, Picasso
  • WWI - disillusionment
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Ezra pound on Modernism

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“Make it new!”

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What modernist movement did Ezra Pound invent?

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Imagism 1912

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Robert Frost on free verse

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“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down”

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Frost on sounds in poetry

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“Sound of sense”

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WCW on imagism

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“No ideas but in things”

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Frosts view of nature is very different from previous Romantic attitudes to nature. Discuss.

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Poets like Wordsworth and Thoreau (Romantic poets) viewed nature as a way to learn about humanity. Romanticism was all about feeling not thinking. Frost viewed nature as very ‘other’ than humanity and had a resulting reverence for it.

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What location did Frost write about?

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The rural new England area

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Who is the poem ‘the road not taken’ dedicated to?

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Edward thomas, who was a friend of Frosts when he moved to England - they used to go on long walks together. Thomas went off to war when Frost returned to the US.

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“the sound of sense”

Who said this?

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Robert Frost

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what makes frost a modernist poet?

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Frost is on the verge of modernism. He, unlike many other Modernist poets, didn’t experiment with form or technique but stuck to traditional forms such as the sonnet. He did however use the american venacular speech patterns - the rhythm of his poems mirrored American speech.

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Around when did Frost write these poems?

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1913-1922
(The Runaway 1918
Mending Wall 1914
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening 1922
Mowing 1913
The Road Not Taken 1915
'Out, Out - ' 1916)
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Which rhythmic style did WCW develop?

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‘the variable foot’ - a way of determining line breaks to resolve the conflict between form and freedom in verse.

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Which artist group was WCW assossiated with?

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‘the others’

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Which of the modernist poets were also budding artists?

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WCW, EE Cummings, DH lawrence

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What were the main themes that interested DH Lawrence?

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  • sexuality
  • relationships
  • modernity
  • travel
  • nature
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Who did DH Lawrence elope with? and when? what was the couples relationship like?

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Freida Weekley, the wife of one of his collegues
1912 - the couple went to Italy
Volatile, passion-driven

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When was ‘snake’ written?

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1923

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Give a couple places that DH lawrence visited during his voluntary exile (“savage pilgrimage”)

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Australia, Italy, Sri Lanka, US, Mexico, the South of France

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DH Lawrence struggled with cancer. True or False?

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False - he suffered from TB

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DH Lawrence published his work in two notable poetry magazines. Name them.

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The Egoist (TS Eliot, Ezra Pound)
The English Review
24
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How does the poem ‘snake’ portray nature?

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  • Seperation between mankind and nature (‘otherness’)
  • nature is better than human kind, which is undignified and is pulled to cruellty.
  • motiveless human destruction - albatross
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True or False:

DH Lawrence was said to like animals more than he liked people

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True

26
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What was Marianne Moore known for?

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  • Formal innovation
  • precision
  • irony and wit
  • her hat (tricorne)
27
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Marianne Moore is often dubbed a “moralist”. What could have influenced this outlook?

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her father was a presbyterian pastor and Moore herself was a Presbyterian.

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What artist group was Marianne Moore assossiated with?

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‘the others’

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Which literary magazine did Marianne Moore edit?

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‘Dial’

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Marianne Moore’s poem ‘poetry’ caused much controversy. Why?

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Marianne Moore was a heavy editor and re-writter. She cut the poem from 31 lines to just 3 lines.

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Marianne Moore was a syllabic poet? What does this mean and what was she inspired by?

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The syllable count is important. (e.g. in ‘The mind is an Enchanting Thing’ the syllable count for the lines is: 6, 5, 4, 6, 7, 9)
This type of poetry was inspired by Eastern poetry forms such as the Haiku. Modernist poems, in an attempt to find a new voice often looked East for inspiration.

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TS Eliot: “the emotion of art is ______”

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Impersonal

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What did TS Eliot study at university?

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Philosophy (at Harvard and Oxford)

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During his time as an undergraduate, TS Eliot read the book ‘The symbolist Movement in Literature’. This introduced him to several poets which greatly influenced his poetry. Name a couple of these inspiring poets.

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  • Laforgue
  • Rimbaud
  • Verlaine
  • Mallarmé
  • Baudelaire
35
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When was ‘La Figlia Ce Piange’ written?

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1911

36
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When was ‘The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ written?

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1915

37
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WCW had a feud with _________

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TS Eliot (he thought Eliot was pretentious, Eliot didnt like the new forms Williams used)

38
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Eliot is offten called an ‘allusive poet’. What does this mean?

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Instead of looking to create new forms (like WCW), Eliot looked to the past to create his poetry. He often references other poets and other works in his poems.

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Edna St Vincent Millay was called ‘the Great _________ _________ of the twentieth century’

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Sonnet writter

40
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Edna St Vincent Millay went by which nickname?

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Vincent

41
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True or False:

Edna St Vincent Millay was openly bisexual

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True

42
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Edna St Vincent Millay often writes about nature, although she lived in the city. Which city?

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New York

43
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What was EE Cummings known for?

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His innovation and experimentation, revised grammatical and linguistic rules.

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In 1917 EE cummings went to france to help with the war effort. What did her do there?

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He volunteered to drive an ambulance (a popular option for those who considered themselves pacifists).

45
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In Jan 1919 Cummings had an affair with his friends wife Elaine Thayer. Just tellme what happened…

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  • Schofeild Thayer knew and approved of the affair
  • Elaine got preggers with Cummings baby
  • she had the baby (Nancy)
  • She divorced Thayer and married Cummings in 1924
  • The couple then divorced nine months later.
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Name some of EE Cummings influences.

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Dada movement (he visited Paris often), Apollinaire (forefather of surrealism), Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein (Steam of Consciousness)

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When was ‘In Just’ written?

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1920

48
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When was ‘what if a much of a which of a wind’ written

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1943

49
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When was ‘pity this busy monster manunkind’ written?

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1944

50
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WH Auden was a _____ Communist

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pink - not really a communist, but interested by the ideas

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Eliot on separating the poet from the poet

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there must be a “separation between the man who suffers and the man who creates”

52
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what were the three imagist rules?

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1) Direct treatment of the thing
2) No superfluous words
3) Avoid sounding rhythmic (like a metronome)

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Who was Apollinaire? And which of our poets did he influence (the most)?

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Apollinaire was a French poet, whose brief career and avant-garde deportment influenced the development of futurism, cubism, Dadaism and surrealism.

Cummings.

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