Zusammenfassung der Ressource
MODERNIST POETRY (2)
- DOROTHY LIVESAY
- Influence of French Symbolism.
Imagist style.
- Anti-capitalist
beliefs. Concern
women's rights
- economy of
language, clarity
of vision,
cadence,sense of
form
- Green Rain.
sophistication, imagist
skills
- Day and Night. Steel
factory workers. Political
engagement. Dire working
conditions. Racial
discrimination.
- The Secret
Doctrine of
Women.
Outstanding
confessional
poetry.
Womanhood,
love, sexuality.
Feminist
critique society.
- P.K. PAGE
- Early political ideas.
Interested philosophy,
psychology, mysticism
- Cosmopolitan
poet. Travelled
diplomatic
husband.
- Stories of Snow. Richness language.
Imagery, Virtual precision. Recurring
metaphor eyes/seeing. Winter/White.
- Arras. Bewilderment, horror, agony in
haunted dream garden. Sinister intruder.
- AL PURDY
- Working class poet. Populist
tradition. Self-educated.
- Master allusion. Thecnical
innovator. Colloquial idiom.
Specific characters. Variation
tone &diction.
- The Country North Of Belleville:
Gaps of space. Farms
abandoned.
- Wilderness Gothic:
Historical past, present,
near future. Dürer
picture. Victorian
omens.