MODERNIST POETRY (2)

MODERNIST POETRY (2)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.