modernist+poetry

Several Modernist poems demonstrate very well the differences between Romantic and Modern poetry, including Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" (1916), T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" (1925), Amy Lowell's "The Letter" and "Grotesque" (1919), Marianne Moore's "The Fish" (1921), selections from e.e. cummings's Is 5 (1954), and selections from Scott Cairns's Recovered Body, and can be seen by selecting the links.

Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, and Scott Cairns.