Sunday, October 21, 2007

Modernism Poets

Poets in the Modernism period are like other poems in other periods whom were influenced by works and poets who created some beautiful pieces of poetry and they followed their steps with adding their own techniques to it to come up with a totally new period of poetry.

In fact, the poet Robert Frost was one of the Modernism Period’s poets who got some inspiration from the early British poetry which was inspired by the natural world and how this world was created with its humans, animals, plants and everything else. Furthermore, he fancied the natural world in some of his works and created some pictures which are related to the beauty and misery it has. For example, in his “After Apple-Picking”, Frost admired the apple creating and how it looked as well as the surrounding of an apple tree, where someone would pick the apples, and even his other poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” he showed the picture of the winter season and how snow was covering everything around it and how even the horse felt the cold night in the winter and in the middle of the woods.

Dylan Thomas is another poet from the modernism period who was inspired by the past poetry periods. He was inspired by older works that had been written in a free verse form. Hence, in his poem “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”, Thomas was not governed by a specific verse and did not have a meter to build his lines over but it still made since and might be enjoyable for petry lover to read.

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