The Modern Poet

For the purpose of this essay, I will interpret, analyse and discuss the ways in which the poetic form and depiction of the city has been influenced by urban experience and the literary techniques used to represent them in ‘Paris: A Poem’ by Hope Mirrlees and T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’.

For the purpose of this essay, I will examine the issue of modernity and how it is accomplished in T. E. Hulme’s ‘The Sunset’ and Richard Aldington’s ‘In the Tube’.