i remember having some trouble to get into modernist poetry back in the faculty. You explain it really well
@EyeLean5280
4 ай бұрын
So interesting that modernist poetry can seem pretentious to someone who came to poetry through earlier styles. My students have the opposite response. The modernists make intuitive sense to them and it's often the heavily allusive Enlightenment poets, or the darkly brooding Romantic poets that strike them as pretentious. In either case, some emotional labor is required, I think, to overcome (likely previously unexamined) personal biases and preferences to get at the genuinely good stuff each of these movements has to offer.
@akramobada
4 ай бұрын
Much appreciated from college of languages , Kufa University Thanks It is my honor to watch your video and explanation
@hiwayshoes
4 ай бұрын
Hi Adam, if you get a chance and have yet to hear it, there’s a rendition in song of “The Stolen Child” by The Waterboys from 2006. I think it’s a beautiful homage to Yeats, so I wanted to share this with you and everyone in the comments... Cheers 💖!
@peterdoh3078
4 ай бұрын
Wow, you just blew my mind. I sat in sweetness watching the confusion of the 20th century. Emptiness and hunger for meaning. Bewildering and beautiful. Thank you.
@georgedibble7853
2 ай бұрын
As always, another tremendous lecture
@vvv-zo9ps
4 ай бұрын
Another great lecture! Hope you make more on modernist poetry
@ajw99a
4 ай бұрын
More modernist please
@kayleawilson
4 ай бұрын
Excited to be a new patron! Poetry is very important to me, and I appreciate your videos very much!!
@closereadingpoetry
4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! I look forward to meeting with you soon, hopefully in the reading groups we have starting next week!
@chrisplatt6842
4 ай бұрын
A fascinating video. I'm quite new to poetry and have just discovered your channel. Looking forward to going through previous videos.
@closereadingpoetry
4 ай бұрын
Glad to have you along, Chris. Let me know if you have any questions!
@johntuffin3262
4 ай бұрын
Regarding the pronunciation of “dulce “, someone of Wilfred Owen’s time would probably have used the old English pronunciation, with a soft “c”. The pronunciation of Latin, as taught in schools, was changed in the early twentieth century. There is a useful article in Wikipedia.
@closereadingpoetry
4 ай бұрын
Ha, interesting. I know that in classical Latin there was no soft "c," and it was always pronounced /k/, but yes perhaps in Owen's time it was as you say.
@davidwinston9440
4 ай бұрын
Another top class session. Thank you Adam
@hexagondun
4 ай бұрын
Nice! I've been trying and failing to get into Hart Crane.
@ToReadersItMayConcern
4 ай бұрын
This is a brilliant summation. Thank you.
@mmmoendo
4 ай бұрын
no mention of the Cantos. hmmm.
@closereadingpoetry
4 ай бұрын
I knew this day would come
@daveg4036
4 ай бұрын
Outstanding
@ambreenali.
4 ай бұрын
This is amazing!
@justanotherpoet2542
2 ай бұрын
A real pity that you omitted the most culturally influential modernist out of this discussion, Dylan Thomas. No other poet from the modernist pantheon has had as much influence in shaping the popular culture of the next few generations as Dylan and his poetry still outsells the other modernists. Here is a discussion about Dylan's place in modernist poetry, his reputation in America and a tour of his birthplace in Swansea, Wales: kzitem.info/news/bejne/wIWEk46fml-boGk
@xmaseveeve5259
3 ай бұрын
(No. These things did not happen. This is even more strange.)
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