poetry response

Modernist poetry tends to break many of the structured rules of poems published previously . Walt Whitman 's When I Heard the Learn 'd Astronomer ' buffalo bill ' by e .e . cummings , and Mirror ' by Sylvia Plath are definitely very different poems in subject . However what they share is a modern ' view of poetry . They all break the mold ' in subject and especially structure

In cummings buffalo bill ' cummings breaks the mold ' both in structure and in syntax . His lack of punctuation and capitalization are unique to his own style . Cummings seems to compare

himself to Bill Cody in that Buffalo Bill was really a facade . He rode a watersmooth silver stallion ' which means that he didn 't really ride a stallion at all . He uses the word defunct ' in rather a mocking way , since it is not the way we would talk about someone who died . And yet , at the same time , there is worship in the poem . However , the poet himself has been tricked by the heroic farce of Bill Cody . This sense of mocking fraud is the chief way this poem is similar to the others . Although cumming 's way to get to this similarity is very different from the other poets He relies on word choice like defunct ' and mocking statements such as fair haired boy ' The tone of both these choices is very irreverent .In Plath 's Mirror ' the reader feels as though Plath is writing personally or confessionally . Here is this woman looking in the mirror...