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READING MODERNIST POETRY IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY INDIA: RELEVANCE AND DISSENSIONS
Ashish Pandey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English, the English and Foreign Languages University, Regional Campus, Lucknow, India. Email: aashishpande@gmail.com
Paper Received On: 18 MAR 2023 Peer Reviewed On: 31 MAR 2023 Published On: 1 APRIL 2023 Abstract This paper analyses the importance of reading Modernist poetry in contemporary India. While Modernist Poetry continues to be taught at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at various universities, some postcolonial researchers and scholars have argued against the teaching of British Modernist poetry in contemporary India, calling it ‘colonial hangover.’ This paper analyses the relevance and use of teaching and reading my modernist British poetry in contemporary India. Keywords: Modernist Poetry, fragmentation, alienation Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
1. Introduction Modernist Poetry is an influential style of writing that emerged in the early part of the twentieth century and persisted until the late 1940s. It draws inspiration from both classical myths and contemporary social and political upheavals alike. The movement was a rejection of the old poetic idiom and created new forms and techniques. Imagism was one of its key features, with many poets using symbolism to convey their ideas. It challenges traditional methods while changing how readers think about their works. Modernist poets rejected the traditional structure of poetry, which lacked a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern or musical form. Instead they use literary devices like symbolism and imagery to foster deeper connections between themselves and their readers. They also experimented with different types of poems, such as imagistic, symbolic, and realist styles. Imagistic styles provide concrete images for readers to interpret while symbols and realist styles give readers a more detailed picture of the subject at hand. Many poems of the time combined these two styles, such as Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”
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