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"Task on Modern Poetry"

This blog is a part of my academic activity which was given to us in the paper of the Modernist literature. Before moving towards this task, let’s have a brief look on the modernism and modernist poetry.   The word modernism is a very vague term, whose precise meanings are very hard to pin down. But it can be said that modernism was started at the end of 19 th century and reached its most radical peak on the eve of World War I.   As far as modernist poetry is concerned, it mainly started in a yearly year of 20 th century or refers to a poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in Europe and North America in the tradition of modernist literature. The common characteristic of this poetry is that, the poets wrote poems in the open form and free verse rather than to follow or write in the tradition form and meter of poetry. The modern poetry is also characterized by a stream of conscious, which mirrors thoughts of the poet pop into conscious mind out of the subco...