The More Things Change . . . Or Stay the Same
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 19:54:30
century was associated with a measure that was into developing and industrializing. People started to act into cities and working in industries rather than on farms. The traditional values of previous decades seemed to slowly disappear from the lives and the minds of the people. Along with all that poets started to create verbally about modern technology and sciences. The typical neo-classical poetry was considered old fashioned and possibly bogus.
Beauty seemed to be easy rather than hard old celebrated poetry was left on shelves and poets were able to see death from modern technology. William Butler Yeats seems to complain in his poem titled. “Adam’s express” that people are taking beauty for granted. "Of bankers schoolmasters and clergymen" seem to think that beauty can either be bought made or become very easily. Yeats was influenced by the poetic tradition of the past and disapproves the modern views. In “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” Yeats mentions of a pilot who sees his own lonely death because of airplanes. In this he shows modern technology and the destruction it could carry. Neo-classical poets probably would have mentioned only imagining of airplanes but Yeats actually mentions the experiences and the possibilities. Edwin Arlington Robinson also seems to disagree with the modern traditions. In “George Crabbe” he mentions how people have accepted scientific theory and thrown away poetry books into some shelf. He then goes on and mentions that poetry is a flame that would measure forever where as technology and theories are just flickers. Robinson also touches on how the modern world has forgotten there religious traditions.
century poets started to write about the realities of the modern world usually showing a pessimistic view. It seemed as if the poets did not desire the change from traditional values to scientific theory. Poets were very influenced and attached with the poetic tradition and were not able to evaluate the changes that industrialization brought. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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