MODERNIST POETRY(1)

MODERNIST POETRY(1)

1. E.J. PRATT

   • Close contact with the sea. maritime life. Seafarers
   • Elegiac mood. Christianity/evolutionary vision
   • Short lyrics in long narrative poems. national epics
   • The Shark. Imagistic poem. Movement of the text forward. Musical design. Feelings
   • Social and economic issues. Thecnical virtuosity. precise diction
   • Towards the Last Spike. Building Pacific Railway. Social & economic issues.

2. A.M. KLEIN

   • Born in Ukrania. Familiy of ortodox Jews. Supporter Zionist cause
   • Influences A.Pope, J.Joyce and Kabbalistic myths.
   • Traditional culture of Judaism & progressive culture of West
   • allusive, direct, ironical, witty, full of puns. Reb Levi talks to God a parody of God's silence
   • 'Heirloom' typical pun to caricature. Remarkable diction simple & colloqial +thecnical, esoteric,erudite. Contemporary idiom and archaic

3. THE MONTREAL GROUP Regected Romanticism. Simplification, concentration, evocarion. Negative effects of colonialism

   • A.J. SMITH
     • Combined imagist & metaphysical poetry
     • Imagist ideas of Canadian landscape
     • Elements pastiche, satire, burlesque. Poetri polished, allusive. dense, poised, ironic, witty & eloquent
     • The Lonely Land, deep & vivid image Canadian landscape
     • The Sea Cliff, movements of sea, sight & sound of waves, alliteration, assonance, repetition, end-rhyme, rhiythmical variation
   • F.R.. SCOTT
     • Fierce believer in freedom and justice
     • Adress social issues, social philosophy & political therory
     • Humour as social critic. Celebrated sharp satirist
     • The Canadian Authors Meet , a public satire
     • All the Spikes but the Last. Rivaltry Pratt=conservative /progressive approach. Satire