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stream of consciousness 
Following World War I, writers such as T.S. Eliot, W.H.Auden, Dylan Thomas and their 
followers brought about a revolution in poetic taste and practice. Like the painters influenced by 
cubism and abstract expressionism or composers influenced by the atonal works of Stravinsky, 
Schoenberg, and Bartok, “modernist” poets developed new techniques to express their vision of the 
postwar world. While some of them are difficult, modern poetry as a whole employs the language 
of common speech to provide rich insights into the people and events of modern life.
Intellectual complexity, allusiveness and intricacy of form are charac-teristics of modern 
poetry. When you read these works you come across lines from foreign languages or allusions you 
don’t recognize. For example, some of Eliots poems, such as “The Hallow Men” have epigraphs 
that need to be interpreted and applied to the poem. W.H. Auden, in his elegy “In Memory of W.B. 
Yeats”, presumes knowledge of the life of Yeats and political events of the 1930s. In such cases the 
footnotes help you by providing such information.
Modern poets usually use language that is fresh, exact, and innovative. In “Fern Hill”, for 
example, Dylan Thomas, regects cliche, and writes “once below a time” instead of “once upon a 
time” and “All the moon long” instead of “All the night long”.
Modern poetry is musical, sensual, and surprising. It also highly varied in subject matter. 
Modern poets have exercised the freedom to write about any subject they please. To compensate for 
the limitations of syllabic rhyme, they have resorted to frequent use of consonantal, assonantal, and 
half-rhymes. Modern poets have sought above all to create poetry that will be appreciated for its 
form and music as well as meaning.
Poet, critic, and dramatist, T.S.Eliot, was the leading spokesman for the modernist poetry that 
emerged in the 1920s. This poetry is characterized by intellectual complexity, allusiveness, precise 
use of images, and pessimism.

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