MODERNIST POETRY(1)

E.J. PRATT
1. Close contact with the sea. maritime life. Seafarers
2. Elegiac mood. Christianity/evolutionary vision
3. Short lyrics in long narrative poems. national epics
4. The Shark. Imagistic poem. Movement of the text forward. Musical design. Feelings
5. Social and economic issues. Thecnical virtuosity. precise diction
6. Towards the Last Spike. Building Pacific Railway. Social & economic issues.
A.M. KLEIN
1. Born in Ukrania. Familiy of ortodox Jews. Supporter Zionist cause
2. Influences A.Pope, J.Joyce and Kabbalistic myths.
3. Traditional culture of Judaism & progressive culture of West
4. allusive, direct, ironical, witty, full of puns. Reb Levi talks to God a parody of God's silence
5. 'Heirloom' typical pun to caricature. Remarkable diction simple & colloqial +thecnical, esoteric,erudite. Contemporary idiom and archaic
THE MONTREAL GROUP Rejected Romanticism. Simplification, concentration, evocarion. Negative effects of colonialism
1. A.J. SMITH
  1. Combined imagist & metaphysical poetry
  2. Imagist ideas of Canadian landscape
  3. Elements pastiche, satire, burlesque. Poetri polished, allusive. dense, poised, ironic, witty & eloquent
  4. The Lonely Land, deep & vivid image Canadian landscape
  5. The Sea Cliff, movements of sea, sight & sound of waves, alliteration, assonance, repetition, end-rhyme, rhiythmical variation
2. F.R.. SCOTT
  1. Fierce believer in freedom and justice
  2. Adress social issues, social philosophy & political theory
  3. Humour as social critic. Celebrated sharp satirist
  4. The Canadian Authors Meet , a public satire
  5. All the Spikes but the Last. Rivaltry Pratt=conservative /progressive approach. Satire

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