Lowell's+The+Letter+and+Grotesque

Amy Lowell's "The Letter," (1919): [|"The Letter"] and "Grotesque," (1919): [|"Grotesque"]

While not nearly as much so as Cummings, these poems by Lowell show the deviation from form and its desired effect on the reader. In "The Letter," the reader can feel the loneliness of the narrator and her inability to put her thoughts into words, a major them in Modernism. And no tenet of Modernism is as great as that of challenging conventional perspective, and "Grotesque" makes the reader look at the act of giving flowers in a totally unconventional way.