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Symbolist Movement
- gave the emotional effect of an object
- like romantics BUT instead of looking toward nature they looked toward the modern day things like technology
- the world was spiritually empty
- poverty, violence, etc
Imagism Movement
- painted pictures with words
- an image along could carry the poems message
- free verse
"The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Pound
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
“The Great Figure”
“Spring and All”
Williams
“Anecdote of the Jar”
“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
“Of Modern Poetry”
Stevens
“Poetry”
Moore
“Ars Poetica”
MacLeish
“Chicago”
Sandburg
“what if a much of which of a wind”
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”
E.E. Cummings
“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
his interpretation of the letter

pound
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
the red wheelbarrow with rain on it sitting by chickens

williams
“The Great Figure”
- the number on the fire truck

williams
“Spring and All”
compares spring to a baby being born

williams
“Anecdote of the Jar”
humans vs nature

stevens
“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
the difference in dreams. ordinary vs not.

stevens
“Poetry”
most people don't like/get poetry. poetry has something to offer everyone if looked into and can bring a message.

Moore
“Ars Poetica”
poetry should paint a picture. paradoxical (uses words to say a poem should be wordless). reader should leave with the emotional value of the poem, not just the words.

MacLeish
“Of Modern Poetry”
poetry should be modern and in the now. should talk about relevant issues

stevens
“Chicago”
the good and bad of chicago.

Sandburg
“what if a much of which of a wind”
first 7 lines of each stanza are about destruction, last 2 are about hope.
peoples lives were filled with death and war at the time so that explains the destruction view of things BUT with the last lines he shows that writers saw hope in the world even after all of the pain and suffering

Cummings
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”
love is powerful yet it can break someone so easily. image of powerful fragility.

Cummings
Linked free verse
no rhyme, no rhythm
Implied metaphor
the two things that are being compared are not named
Paradoxical
contradictory
Apostrophe
speaker or writer addresses either an inanimate object, an idea, a person, who is either dead of absent
epithets
a descriptive word of phrase used to describe a person or thing