AO4

a glimpse by walt whitman:

• feels narrative but not simultaneously

• short, free verse

• Imagist poem

  • but Imagism doesn’t get invented until the 1910s

  • » avant garde

• short glimpses into a passive, cinematic, visual world

• non-poetic eg ‘interstice,’ ‘smutty jest’

• makes the shared experience of humans poignant and meaningful

  • verisimilitudinous

part 3:love, 17

• satirical statement about the nature of womanhood and wifehood

• likely to have been written in free verse if it had been a thing in the 1800s » only Walt Whitman wrote in free verse

the bath tub » ezra pound:

• mentor for ts eliot

  • wasteland, ts eliot:

    • wilfully obscure

    • heavily influenced by pound

the love song of j alfred prufrock by ts eliot:

• modernism 101

angels 1919 by virginia woolf:

• big into sonder

• talks of the multitude of experiences that humans have within their lives

song (“love has crept”):

• Romantic poem

to dorothy by marvin bell:

• sort of like ts eliot

ir was raining in delft: