Modernists of the 30s - Comparative essay

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[...] Towards the end of the poem, there is a move to the prevalence natural manifestations which take everything while the last reference to a named goddess "Kuan on of all delights . " appears as a votive talk which may be to restore and renew with the ancient death rituals coming from the Old Asian culture. This way, Pound embraces the universality of death, which transcends all the aspects of the life to death's difficult transition, bringing outspread poetry in it. [...]

[...] However, this feeling appears to be reinforced by the accentual and alliterative plays on words and expressions. This way, we feel the perceptive sound of "the voiceless with bumm drum and banners". Indeed, we need to note that Ezra Pound's Old English- based poetry which works on the number of stressed syllables per line, gives some intuitive rhythm to the whole narration. So, the rules of "accentual" meter made sure that poems would follow predictable forms that made them easier to memorize. [...]

[...] This is the case of Langston Hughes `autobiography long depicted within I wonder as I wander published in 1956 and A long way from home from Claude Mc Kay, published in 1937. We will offer to compare and contrast these two autobiographies works. If all of them deal with the complicated path of a writing career, they use contrasting ways to express the mixed feelings aroused into their hearts along this "run". Mc Kay enrols his personal occupations balanced between inner excitement and "menial tasks". [...]

[...] The outbreak of these marginal feeling expressions appears all the more sincere since the emotional part seems to be quite completely erased from Hughes' recall. Furthermore, all these materialistic considerations seem to reveal a deeply socio-economically committed period while in Mc Kay's narrative, the materialistic aspect is only due to generate a symbolic recall between inner aspirations and real achievements. Analysis Ezra Pound's contribution to modernist poetry, The Cantos appears as one of the most subtle and complete poetry exercises of its kind. [...]

[...] The modernists of the 30s Who were the 1930s modernist authors? Literary modernists have spread in Europe. We may draw a list of some major modernist artists among which Edward Estling Communing's, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Arthur Rimbaud, Laura Riding, Marc Chagall, Jean Arp or Dylan Thomas. London, Dublin and New York: Three important cities in the English modernism movement Since the city appeared as a key motif in modernist literature, London, Dublin and New York city have been then depicted to highly contribute to the modernist production. [...]