New Methods in Expression: Modern English Poetry

Modernist poetry is a writing style with two main characteristics. The first is the technical innovation of writing through the extensive use of free poetry. The second is a departure from the romantic idea of a fluent and poetic "I," which directly faces the same fluent ideal reader or audience. 

Modern English poetry is generally considered to have appeared with the appearance of Imagist poets in the early 20th century. Like many other modernists, these poets wrote in response to what they believed was the excessive behavior of Victorian poetry, emphasizing traditional formalism and overly gorgeous poetic language. 

In general, modernists consider themselves to review the best practices of early poets and other cultures. His models include ancient Greek literature, Chinese and Japanese poetry, and British metaphysical poets. 

Most of the early poems written by these writers were in the form of short letters. However, with the development of English modernist poems, longer poems have come to the fore. These long poems represent the main contribution of the modernist movement to the classics of 20th-century British poetry.

The self-questioning of modernist poetry and the exploration of technological innovation are closely related. The dislocation of the author is achieved through the application of collages, discovered poems, visual poems, the juxtaposition of obviously unrelated materials, and combinations of these techniques. These techniques are not used by themselves, but to raise questions about the nature of the experience of poetry in the mind of the reader. These developments parallel changes in other arts, especially painting and music, which took place at the same time.

Also, the modernist rejects the traditional aesthetic claims of the late romantic period and does not pursue "beauty" for the highest achievement in the more abnormal times. These abandonments of the sublime have led to attempts to break away from idyllic time and focus on the city, machinery, and industrial environment.

The most impressive element of modernist poetry is the invention and experimentation of new methods of expression. Because modernism involves a lot of 'attention,' it includes many different ways to express thoughts and feelings. The various methods of expression include imaginary methods of presenting concrete images so that the reader can understand the idea and experience the emotion itself. A symbolic way of expressing things in terms of the very important symbols of ideas and emotions that the reader interprets intellectually. A realist way of truly reflecting the reality of the world. A naturalistic way of reaching the extremes of realism is by displaying a private psychological fantasy and neuroticism. The Impressionist method of presenting all crude first impressions by observation. An expressionist way of seeking to express hidden deep feelings that delve deeply into one's mind, like confession verses. A surrealistic way of imposing a mood of mad, intoxicating, toxic neurosis to excite the illogical "language" of the unconscious. Modernism includes all such experiments in expressive techniques.

The extensive use of themes, subjects, and topics is another key part of contemporary poetry. Traditional poetry must be restricted to universal subjects, human appeal, etc., yet the poems are seemingly romantic but we read poems on any subject and topic in modernist poetry. Nature and feathering poetry, stories, and satires are written on lonely and poor characters, create meaning, and evocative remembrances. Love of a woman, mental crisis and abortion guilt, feminist movement and father neurotic disrespect, a metaphor of path of life and the tragedy of death, etc.

From this viewpoint, we will find several renowned instances if we choose to evaluate recent poems thematically. In these instances, we can see that current and current poems are not as basic as they seem.

"Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight" encourages elderly people to challenge their fate, lamenting the necessity and inevitability of death and suggests that we must leave this world the way we got in - kicking and shouting, keeping all the lives we deserve.

“Phenomenal Woman” glorifies the strength of women. The speaker is a very trustworthy woman who is both physically and internally beautiful. She understands that she is extremely strong by her traits, as her magnificent aura attracts both women's and men's attention. In the sexual and intellectual sense, she has influence over men because they find her attractive but do not really appreciate her inner beauty. She is also stronger than other women, who are envious of and maybe meager towards her for disregarding her attractiveness.