Modernist Poems

1.) ‘The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme
Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,
In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.
Now see I
That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy.
Oh, God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

      “  The  Embankment’- The fantasia of a fallen Gentleman on a cold,bitter night.’fallen gentleman's reflects on his past and how he found pleasure in worldly social activities.The narrator's calling himself a “fallen Gentleman”.the war 'finesse of fiddles’ suggesting musical gathering and flash of gold heels on the hard pavement us use her beautiful women.she is  prostitute.

2.) "Darkness" - Joseph Campbell
    
              Darkness
       I stop to watch a star shine
       in the boghole -
       A star no longer, but a silver
        ribbon of light.
       I look at it and pass on.

  

               Word "Darkness" itself describe night, sadness also 

connect with beauty of night, beauty of moon. It also 

describes peace of mind. Poet is not able to see stars; but 

there is "a silver ribbon of light" and poet looked it at that 

there is no stars but light is still be there. So here poet 

describe the beauty of  stars and night. 

3.) 'Image' - Edward Storer

         Forsaken lovers,
      Burning to a chaste white moon
      Upon strange Pyres of loneliness and
      drought.

                 .'Forsaken' meaning is 'renounce’ and 'Forsaken’ lover denot the full.image  word also used for modern people and they living own way .the word 'Forsaken’ is metaphor in this poem.

4.) "In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound
               
 In this poem poet compares faces of people which he 

found in crowd with the "petals on a wet, black bough."

5.) 'The Pool' - Hilda Doolittle
      Are you alive?
      I touch you
      You quiver trembling like a sea-fish
      I cover you with my net
      What are you- banded one?

          

            Here in this poem 'The pool’ an image of in our mind word stored water.water is like purity and rebirth .the lyric has a hint of a sentiment antonomous life where it is hard for a person to survive .so the illustration utilized “trembling seafish” and power controls this sort of person.

6) "Insouciance" – Richard Aldington
     In and out of the dreary trenches
    Trudging cheerily under the stars
      I make for myself little poems
      Delicate as a flock of doves
      They fly away like white-winged
       Doves.

.            In this poem has many different images; “Dreary trenches” is used as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life.the poet is writing poetry himself also and the line 'Trudging cheerily  under the stars’meaning is poet living happily under the sky .in this poem used metaphor “a flock of doves”.

7.) Morning at the Window - T. S. Eliot
 They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
 And along the trampled edges of the street
 I am aware of the damp souls of housemaid
 Sprouting despondently at area gates.
 The brown waves of fog toss up to me
  Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
 And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.

       In this poem many words used like “rattling,” damp soul”,”despondently”,”fog”,”twisted faces”,”fear”,”aimless”,.here in this poem Eliot has displayed the normal existence of people who are completely confined with the nature and they are working mechanically but not with energy .here the poet used new symbolic like plates and all those things and itself recommends their method for living.

8).The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chicken.

      Here in This poem the first line is not connected with other line .in this poem the word 'rain’ and 'water’ also symbolize positive and negative.

9).Anecdote of the Jar- Wallace Stevens
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

      This poem is about jar.jar has no life but nature has,nature first did not like jar.poet places the jar at a hill of Tennessee and that time of story is started.

10)       It is very short and good poem and one line poem suggest many things like loneliness,fallen life and aimless and a last leaf.last leaf symbolize the necessary death.