POETRY OF 20 CENTURY

Death, doomed cities and loneliness

Impressionism
T.S Eliot
Wasteland Sprountings: Cityscapes of modernism
That Corpse you planted last year in the garden/ Has it began
to sprout?
Falling towers
Jerusalem, Athens, Alexendria, Viena, London, Unreal
(5: 371-76)
Larkin
Larkin writes of human realtionship, loss and
loneliness in terms that are more recongnizable
than that of modernisms.
Who can confront
The instantaneous grief of being alone?
(Kick Up the Fire)
Ted Hughes
A raw, violent primitivism is visible in Ted Hughes
(1930-98), Poet Laureate of England from 1984
until his death. Turning away from the urbanisim of
the moderns, Hughes early work is rooted in
nature.
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