Hello. The given blog is in response to the activity to analys 10 very short poems. And that is thus.
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.
-- Modernist literature at first seems difficult to understand. In this poem, Hulme is trying to escape from earthly realities and wants himself to be wined up with comfortable lies.
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 as well, poet uses aunty-archetype IMAGE. Generally, the moon is used as the connecting chain between two lovers. And it gives such piece of mind. But here, poet says that the lovers are burning to white moon. Though the intimate feelings are there between lovers, still 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
--Ezra Pound have beautifully portrayed the station of Metro and people of the metro as well. The faces are visible only for few seconds and at last it is out from the memory. The same way it is captured in very two lines.
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 - 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 despondently at 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 picture is that of a morning . T. S. Eloit is writing the poem from the point of the housemaid who is constantly engaged with lots of work.
8.) The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chicken.
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.
-- poet is trying to hung at the bank of Tennessee but nothing he was able to catch.
10.) ‘l (a‘- E. E. Cummings
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
-- This is the best poem amongst all given here. Poet have marvelously captured the image of falling leaves in the poem. Words even are falling in the poem, just like leaf. . Broken into pieces, and with that word and leaf, loneliness also fals and spreads in the mind of reader.
