An Overview of the Idea Behind the Complex Movement of Modernism (2048 words, 4 pages)
"Make it new", said Ezra Pound. What was new in Modernist poetry? Modernism was a complex movement, including many unique and varied features in its odd period of development in European and American writers. Broadly and retrospectively, four features were common experimentation, anti-realism, intellectualism and individualism, although excellent Modernist poets ...
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