Step 1: In your own words, describe Modernism and Imagism.
Step 2: Choose a poem from Unit 1 that is an example of Modernism and a poem that is an example of Imagism.
Step 3: Find 1-2 lines from each poem that give an example of how the poem is modernist or imagist.
Step 4: Explain how the lines you chose for Step 3 show that the poem is modernist or imagist.

Modernism and imagism

Explanation:

1.Modernism can be said to have been born from contrarian attitudes of the previous centuries.

Imagism was a sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery with sharp language. The essential idea was to re-create the physical experience of an object through words.

2.As with all of Modernism, Imagism implicitly rejected Victorian poetry, which tended toward narrative. In this way, Imagist poetry is similar to the Japanese Haiku; they are brief renderings of some sort of poetic scene.

3.Modernist Poem example :

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to a chaste white moon,

Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought.

Imagist Poem example :

'Oread'

Whirl up, sea -

Whirl your pointed pines,

Splash your great pines