3) 'Image' - Edward Storer
Forsaken lovers,
Burning to a chaste white moon
Upon strange Pyres of loneliness and
drought.
The symbol of "THE WHITE MOON" is generally use of the two lowers . literary or geographically the moon can be taken as in interpretation of peace and calmness,but here the poets breaking the traditions of Victorian themes of using nature in a beautiful way he use the symbol of moon in a very contradictory way. but poet here used it in opposite side that it burns lovers and they can't chaste with each other. Their loneliness is there though they are together word 'Forsaken’ means departure or separation to each other.
4) In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound
"The apparition of these faces in the crows;
Petals on a wet, black bough"
"A man sees a bunch of faces in the subway and thinks they look like flowers on a tree"
This poem can considered as a huge satire on Victorian poems were, the traditional themes of poetry writing of that age was mainly lengthy and tough. but here the modern poets are writing their poetry is like a metro speed. also satire on the busiest life style of people were they are in the crowd but still individual and so lonely. Here, poet used very good metaphor "Petals on wet black bought". This poem suggest the busy life of city people they have not time to face each other like city life is lifeless. we can say that this poem is about the loneliness in crowd.
The metaphor: the poem implies that the faces are petals on a tree."Faces in the Crowd" (line 1)The first line depicts as unnatural a setting as possible – a crowded subway station. "Petals on a wet, black bough." (line 2)The second line fuses the image of the chaotic and stressful world of man to a peaceful and intense vision of a flowering tree.
5)The pool- by Hilda Dolittle
"Are you alive?
I touched you
you quiver trembling like a sea fish
I cover you with my net
What are you banded one?
'Are you alive? arise the question of existence which is one of the important aspect of modern literature.
If, under the surface, the "who" is a new discovery -- a new lover, for example -- it is alive but appears dead at first. It awakens to love's touch and must be "banded" by the net -- hence the fearfulness.
Pool as Mirror
Doolittle's pool may be a mirror. The poet, who is bisexual, may be capturing her inner self, "banded" to a gay-repressive society's idea of her legitimate being. This interpretation increases the fearful tone; Doolittle is afraid to free herself.
#.The Pool' - Hilda Doolittle:
The pool- gives an idea about swimming pool ,which is against nature of water.The water in pool can't move.
Water is like purity and rebirth.
6) "Insouciance"- By Richard Aldington
"In and out of the dreary trenches
Trudging cheerily under the stars
I make for myself little poems
Delicate as a flock of dovesin
Thy fly away like white-winged Doves.
In his short poem “Insouciance,” written just a after World War I ended, Aldington composed this odd little poem. In it, Aldington describes life in the trenches and how poetry kept him alive and happy.
"I make for myself little poem"
It is oddly light-heated when compared with modern ideals of war poetry. The personification of poems as “white winged doves” that fly away is liberating and helps understand his perspective on the arts and why they kept him alive and happy during trying times.
"In and out of the dreary trenches"
this is a modern culture of living life and feeling of isolation is there.
#.Insouciance-Richard Aldington
The symbols in the poem are:
Dreary Trenches
Truding cheerily
Flock-winged.
7)"Morning at the window"- T.S.Eliot
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
The present poem about the modern view of England. The main idea of the poem is poverty, it presents the picture of poor people. who have to face several hardship from morning to the late night.
There are vivid images that makes the poem imagist one for
e.g- "Rattling breakfast plates",= Impersonal introduction of character.
"And along the trapled edges of the street"= Indication of low social class
"I am aware of the damp souls of housemaid
s" =
The highlighted metaphor suggests the housemaids' souls are "damp," like festering, material that is left outside.
"Damp souls"= abandonment and loneliness
In this poem many word like 'rattling’,damp souls’, despondently’, twisted faces’.
The poet has described leaf fall like autumn. So it is modernist metaphor.
8.) The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chicken.
The poem sings a song of craftsmanship. Poet says, 'so much depends upon a red Wheelbarrow. It glazes in rain like white chickens. Though industry and factories have took place, craftsmanship is also important.
#.The Red wheelbarrow-Williar carlos william:
Here in this poem many dual symbol like,
red-white
rain-water
wheel-barrow
As i believe the word 'white chicken' suggest a child.
Metaphor:
The wheel barrow -hardworking life of Americans at that time.
We can also conclude that the poet is talking about America, because the different images in the poem (wheelbarrow, rain, and chickens) are the colors of the American flag (red, blue, and white)
9) "Anecdote of the jar- wallace stevens
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
This is a imaginative poem which exaggerate the picture of jar. Poet placed that jar upon hill, jar reminds us the Grecian urn of Keats. Poets sing the glory of the jar and also ask the question that which is superior 'a work of art or nature?'
Stevens also use the symbolism
e.g= Inside the jar one is able to extract weakness,pain.
= The jar was placed in Tennessee is symbolic of bottled up emotions within the person.
Metaphor= jar-civilization
10) "I (A- E.E.Cummings
"A leaf falls with loneliness"
This poem puts into the perspective of what loneliness feels like. the poet may think Everyone in the world feels lonely. It's inevitable. Just like how there are millions of people in the world and all of them feel lonely, there are millions of leaves on millions of trees, and when they fall to the ground, they are all alone.
Apart from loneliness and a leaf falls, the l and loneliness are separated really emphasizing that loneliness and being completely by one's self
The image in the poem is loneliness and a leaf. we can connect with death of human with fallen leaf. So, isolation is the main theme and image of this one line poem.
