The Modern Era Of British Literature vol.1

By: Erick Fernandez modernism. Free verse in an unpublished lecture. A lecture on modern poetry was a paper by Thomas Ernest Hulme, which was read to the poets club around the end of 1908. It is concise statement of hulme’s influential advocacy of free verse. The lecture was not published during hulme’s life time. Walter Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American cannon often called the father of free verse. Whitman was called the father of free verse because his work breaks the boundaries of poetic form and is generally prose-like. Many writers began writing in a style called stream of consciousness. What is stream of consciousness and why did they start writing in that style? Well, stream of consciousness is a creative strategy that many others use in their works. Stream of consciousness generally includes character jumping from one observation, sensation, or reflection to the next. Stream of consciousness often amounts the reporting non-sequential or fragmented though patterns. A lot of people started using epiphanies. Made people come to realization about the right thing to do with there life’s. Like in the move “The Simpsons

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