20th century british poetry erika schrickel. poetry movements there were 13 movements during the...
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Poetry Movements Modernist Poetry Imagist Objectivist The Movement British Poetry Revival The Martians Modernist Poetry Imagist Objectivist The Movement British Poetry Revival The MartiansTRANSCRIPT
20th Century British Poetry20th Century British Poetry Erika Schrickel
Poetry Movements
• There were 13 movements during the 20th century that were shared among:
• the United States,
• Great Britain,
• Hungary and other countries;
• however, only six of them stemmed from Great Britain.
Poetry Movements
Modernist Poetry
Imagist
Objectivist
The Movement
British Poetry Revival
The Martians
Modernist Poetry
• reaction of the Victorian movement, emphasizing traditional formalism and fancy diction.
• influenced by Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish poets.
Imagism
• Early 20th-century British and American poetry
• Favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
• Rejected the digressive and sentimental qualities of the Romantic poetry era.
Objectivist
• derived from the Modernists
• mainly of Americans excluding british poet Basil Bunting
• treated poetry like it was an object
• emphasized sincerity, intelligence, and the poet's clear perspective of the world.
The Movement
• English poets Kinsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Conquest.
• Theme: anti-romance.
British Poetry Revival
• 1960s and 1970s
• Modernist-inspired reaction to the poetry movement,
The Martians
• British surrealist poets
• described ordinary things as if they saw it through the eyes of a Martian.
• Describing a book:
• “Mechanical birds with many wingsperch on the handcause the eyes to meltor the body to shriek without pain” -Raine
D. J. Enright
Dennis Joseph Enright
March 11, 1920 - December 31, 2002
British Academic, Poet, Novelist
Basil Bunting
March 1 1900 - April 17 1985
British Modernist Poet
Emphasized sound in poetry
Famous for “Briggflatts”
Basil Bunting’s “At Briggflatts Meetinghouse”
Boasts time mocks cumber Rome. Wrenset up his own monument.Others watch fells dwindle, thinkthe sun’s fires sink.
Stones indeed sift to sand, oakblends with saint’s bones.Yet for a little longer herestone and oak shelter
silence while we ask nothingbut silence. Look how clouds dance under the wind’s wing, and leaves delight in transience.