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Poetry Authors
Zeanah Poetry authors, descriptions, and stories.
| Story | Author | Story Fact | Author Fact |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock | TS Eliot | dramatic monologue | Modernist |
| The River Merchants Wife, In a Station of the Metro | Ezra Pound | imagist poem about asian girl in arranged marraige (husband- river boat pilot) | helped develop Imagism |
| Heat, Pear Tree | H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) | these poem create strong images | began Imagist movement |
| The Red Wheelbarrow, The Great Figure, This is just to say | William Carlos Williams | imagist poems | believed "all words create a single effect" |
| anyone lived in a pretty how town | e. e. cummings | anyone: person, no one: person's wife | concern for the individual and his ability to recognize life's ironies |
| old age sticks | e. e. cummings | author known for Satire | wrote everything uncapitalized (concerned with being unique) |
| The Unknown Citizen | W. H. Auden | satire and Modernist poem | wrote about individuality against conformity (anti nazi), and known for criticisms |
| Of Modern Poetry, Anecdote of the Jar | Wallace Stevens | 'Modern Poetry' -poetry is a stage | Symbolist; believed naturalist world was the only certainty (ironic, because he was in insurance guy) |
| Ars Poetica | MacLeish | author believed poetry should touch human spirit | influenced by Modernists and wrote about political and social issues |
| Poetry | Moore | author believed poetry should be understandable and accessible; otherwise, a failure | Modernist poet, but did not write about modern things. instead, wrote of nature and animals. |
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