Step 1: In your own words, describe Modernism and Imagism.
Step 2: Choose a poem from Unit 1 that is an example of Modernism and a poem that is an example of Imagism.
Step 3: Find 1-2 lines from each poem that give an example of how the poem is modernist or imagist.
Step 4: Explain how the lines you chose for Step 3 show that the poem is modernist or imagist.

Modernism and imagism

Explanation:

1.Modernism can be said to have been born from contrarian attitudes of the previous centuries.

Imagism was a sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery with sharp language. The essential idea was to re-create the physical experience of an object through words.

2.As with all of Modernism, Imagism implicitly rejected Victorian poetry, which tended toward narrative. In this way, Imagist poetry is similar to the Japanese Haiku; they are brief renderings of some sort of poetic scene.

3.Modernist Poem example :

Forsaken lovers,

Burning to a chaste white moon,

Upon strange pyres of loneliness and drought.

Imagist Poem example :

'Oread'

Whirl up, sea -

Whirl your pointed pines,

Splash your great pines

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.