The Moderns #1A: Prose and Poetry (3/13-3/17/23)

symbolism

(n) The use of something concrete that is used to represent something more than itself

imagism

(n) A literary movement that flourished between 1912 and 1927. Led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell, the Imagist poets rejected nineteenth-century poetic forms and language. Instead, they wrote short poems that used ordinary language and free verse to create sharp, exact, concentrated pictures.

Harlem Renaissance

(n) Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement.

free verse

(n) Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

polyphony (n); polyphonic (adj)

(n) two or more independent melodies juxtaposed in harmony

paradox

(n) A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

"All I know is that I know nothing."

prose

(n) written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure; not poetry

privy

(adj) informed about something secret or not generally known

feign

(v) to pretend

levity

(n.) a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect