Stevens and Moore.

Well, getting a late start on this assignment not really understanding much about it, but then talking things over in class made me have more of an understanding.. When we did the group activity and we had to translate Moore's writing of "Poetry," we came up that she is critizing poetry writers, but at the same time she enjoys poetry. Writers don't have to make things so difficult because that turns people away from reading it. Every day events happen and they are good without us making a big deal about them. Both Moore and Stevens talk about nature, and animals a lot. They both also rhyme at times. When you asked about sound, I think my atempt to read them aloud was more difficult reading Stevens. Altho his stanza's clearly ended, it seemed choppy. Moore's was more easy going, when talking about sound, and i also think an easy going type writing style. When in class we also translated Stevens "Anecdote of the jar," I noticed he rhymed a lot more compared to Moore's in "Poetry." This poem that he wrote, seemed to be complicated because there's just random lines stuck next to eachother. I'm not sure where they came from, but he put them together to make a jar have a whole history. He starts and ends the poem with the same idea about "Tennessee," compared to Moore's that just kinda got to the point without making it so complicating to see the point.

Modernists.

I did not wait until tonight to read The Waste Land, i took my time and still found this poem completely overwhelming. This reading seemed very dark, and the footnotes to the words he wrote were very long, that made me just more confused because you couldn't read without the footnotes, but to me the footnotes didnt make much sense anyhow. I don't think I could clearly state what the point that T.S. Eliot was trying to get across. Modernism from what i interpertated from class is a sense of lack of identity, violence, experimentation, speed of change in technology and communication. Besides the actual words in the poem, the way that the poem is actually written also classifies a peice as modernism. Sentence fragments, a rythum or pulse to it, their might be some traditional elements like nature. In The Waste Land, I did not find speed of change in technology, but I did find violence. "He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience" (page 1440 stanza 328-330)The writing itself was modernism because it contained fragmentation. Besides a good example of above another is, "April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire..." (Page 1430 first 3 lines) The way T.S. Eliot writes these, I got confused with the breaks on whether certain words went with certain phrases or the continued on one below but seemed to be it's own with the Capital letter. But the capital letter at the beginning of each stanza can just be the way of writing. I think all together that this peice was modernist, it shows certain places like the prison and describes this "unreal city," leaving this peice as kinda of impersonal. ALthough I'm not quite sure if any of that is what the reading was stating but that's what I interpreted out of it.