Major Modernist Poets presented by Department of English, Uttara University

2. Presentation Topic:
Define Modernism. Critically Justify the
major modern poets and their
contribution to English Literature.

3. Presented for:
Monir Hossen
Lecture
Department of English
Uttara University
Presented by:
Sayeda Khadiza Akter Anni
ID:F21433111013
Batch: 35th
Dep.Of English
Uttara University

4. Definition:
Modernism is a literary and culture international movement
which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century.
Modernism is not a term to which a single meaning can be
ascribed. It may be applied both to the content and to the form
of a work or either in isolation. It reflects a sense of culture
crisis which was both exciting and disquieting, is that it opened
up a whole new vista of human possibilities at the same time as
putting into question any previously accepted means of
grounding and evaluating new ideas. Modernism is marked by
experimentation, practically manipulation of form and by the
realization that knowledge is not absolute.

5. ★T. S. Eliot
★Ezra Pound
★Wallace Stevens
★W. B. Yeats
★Paul Valér
★H.D.
★Emily Dickinsos
Modernist Poets

6. T.S.Eliot (1888 -1965)
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a British essayist, publisher,
playwright, literary, social critic and one of the twentieth
century's major poets. It best phrases are:
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem " The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " (1915), which was seen as a
masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by
some of the best-known poems in the English language,
including The Waste Land (1922).
"April is the cruellest month",
I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
and. "shantih shantih shantih"

7. W.B.Yeats (1865-1939)
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet
and one of the foremost figure of 20th
century literature. A pillar of both the
Irish and British literary establishments,
he helped and found the Abbey Theatre
and in his later years served as an Irish
Senator for two terms.
“The Second Coming” is superb example
of Yeats modernism as in this poem
Yeats portrays the modern chaotic.

8. Ezra Pound(1885- 1972)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and
critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist movement.
His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism ,
a movement derived from classical Chinese and
Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of
language. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos.
He has been one of the most controversial.
Cathay as well as being one of the century's most important poets,
Pound was also a scholar.

9. Paul Valery (1871-1945)
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (/ vɑːleɪˈri/ ; [1]
French: [pɔl valeʁi] ; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a
French poet, essayist , and philosopher . In addition to his
poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests
included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and
current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 12 different years.
"The Great silence" valery is the best known as a poet and
he is sometimes considered to be the last of the French
symbolists.
Before La Jeune parque, Valery's only publication of note
were dialogues, articles, some poems and a study of
Leonardo da Vinci.

10. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He
was born in Reading, Pennsylvania , educated at Harvard
and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his
life working as an executive for an insurance company in
Hartford, Connecticut . He won the Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.
Some of his best poems include "The Emperor of Ice-
cream", Sunday Morning, The show men etc.
"The Emperor of Ice- Cream" The Emperor of Ice-cream
may well qualify for the accolade of most baffling poem
of the enter twentieth century. "The Snow Man" it is
about a rejection of the Romantic impulse to project your
own feeling on to the natural world.

11. Conclusion :
Modern poetry has to be about the act of writing poetry.
More specifically, it has to be about making people feel
better about their lives. In Stevens words, it has to be "the
finding of a satisfaction. It's up to the poet to decide what
that satisfaction is but in dark. Modern times poetry has to
give its readers a sense of hope and purpose. It doesn't
need poetry to make it any tougher. By studying early
twentieth century poets, achieved their place among
modern poets shortly before their death with complete
poems.

12. Reference
 1.Modernism ; en.m.Wikipedia.org
 2.T.S.Eliot ; Www.Ukessays.com/; en.m.Wikipedia. org
 3.W.B.Yeats ; Www.literary.articles.com/; en.m.Wikipedia.org/
 4.Ezra Pound ; en.m.Wikipedia. org/;
Www.poetryfoundation.org/; myopicopoets.blogspot.com/;
Www.shmoop.com/; Googleweblight.com/;
 5.Paul Valery ; en.m.Wikipedia.org/;
Www.poetryfoundation.org/; Www.oxfordreference.com
 6.Wallace Steven ; en.m.Wikipedia.org/;
 Www.shmoop.com/; interestingliterature.com/;
 7.Conclusion ; Www.shmoop.com/;
www.poetryfoundation.org/;

13. Thank you