Modernism

Modernism is a poetry movement that happened in the beginning of the 20th century. Modernistic authors did not want to be constrained by traditional forms of poetry.

Characteristics/Structure

• Free verse 
• Prose
• Rebellion 
• Individualism 
• Anti-realism
• Intellectualism 
• No exact number of lines
• Jump from thought to thought 

Themes

• Technology 
• Loneliness 
• Contemporary culture 
• Global language 

Authors 

• T.S. Elliot 
• E.E. Cummings 
• Emily Dickinson 
• Robert Frost
• Slyvia Plath 
• Thomas Hardy 

Poem 

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html (T.S. Elliot) 

The Wasteland http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html (T.S. Elliot)