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Symbolism In Modern Poetry
Symbolism was a literary movement that began in 1886 as a reaction against rigid French poetry. It aimed to use symbols to represent ideas and emotions rather than directly expressing them. Key features included obscure references open to multiple interpretations, repetition for suggestive effect, and using colors and language figuratively rather than literally. Major symbolist poets were Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats. The movement sought to express the subconscious and blend perceptions in a way that moved fluidly between objective and subjective experience.
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Symbolism In Modern Poetry
- 1. Symbolism: A Movementin Modern English Poetry
- 2. Symbolism as aliterary movement was first expressly announced and named by Jean Moreas in Le Figaro on 18 September 1886.
- 3. The wave ofcriticism and revival
- 4. “The Symbolism ofPoetry” (1900) by William Butler Yeats the symbolist poem as a short lyric, perpetuating an emotion that is then transformed into “some great epic,”
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- 6. T. S. Eliot(1888-1965)
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- 9. Symbolism was areaction against the rigidity imposed on French poetry by that neo-classic school, the Parnassian
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- 11. the symbolists werenot primarily interested in the ideas of the mind, but in the expression of the whole personality
- 12. Expression particularly intwo ways • mingling the perceptions of one’s sense (a sight, touch or smell etc)
- 13. releasing and givingsymbolic expression to our subconscious impulses
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- 18. cannot be tieddown to any single and simple interpretation
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- 21. Colours were notmerely colours
- 23. Form of language •free verse • dense syntax • figurative language • rhythm
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- 26. we get acomposite and very attractive type of poetry in which one moves without logical links from the realms of objectively shared common experience into the private domain of the poet’s mind
- 27. Works consulted • DinaRipsman Eylon’s article “symbolism” • Dr loius’article “symbols” • HISTORY OS ENGLISH LITERATURE T Singh • Modern Poetry
Editor's Notes
- #3 At the end of the nineteenth century, Symbolism lost it dominance in France. Yet the movement’s popularity increased and spread to continental Europe, England, Russia,the United States, and South America.
- #4 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), W.B. Yeats
- #18 freer play to the imagination of both reader and poet
- #20 repetitive rhythms of the symbolists have in them a hypnotic quality as well, and they recall the texture of dreams and of subconscious states of mind
- #21 the interpretation of these poems is almost as tricky, and full of traps, as the interpretation of dreams.
- #22 The were expressions…feelings…motives…
- #26 its extreme this leads to Surrealist poetry never very successful in England,
- #27 How form the poetry