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A 5 page paper which examines how both T.S. Eliot and William Carlos William are both modernists, despite differences in their work. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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20th century. They were, however, quite different in their style and their opinions regarding poetry and what its purpose may have been. The following paper examines how both of the
poets were modernists, though different. T.S. Eliot In many ways people often associate modernist poetry with extended length in the field of poetry. In Eliots case this is
perhaps one of his most notable modernist functions for his poems were generally very long. One of the most famous poems of all time, and perhaps the one poem that
many people use when defining modernist poetry, is Eliots "Wasteland." It is an extensive poem that drifts along many different paths, clearly presenting the reader with the modernist freeform approach.
However, as that poem is incredibly extensive and worthy of far more discussion than the space provides for within, the poem to be examined by Eliot is "Portrait of a
Lady." "Portrait of a Lady" is also a relatively long poem, though by no means of any kind of novella length. It possesses the freeform, that which presents poetry without
the regulated rhyme or meter, and offers images that touch on emotions and intricate thought. In the following lines one can see these structures and images: "And so the conversation
slips/ Among velleities and carefully caught regrets/ Through attenuated tones of violins/ Mingled with remote cornets/ And begins" (Eliot 14-18). In these lines one can see how the narrator
is not assuming that he is without problems, nor that the audience is without problems. There is not the structure that assumes a certain level of control but rather begins
to offer the reader a sense of dysfunction to some extent. This is one of the powerful elements of modernist poetry for it allowed for weakness, for confusion, and yet
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