poems.

here are a few poems by modernist authors and poets alike :


Jean Toomer , Cane (1923):


Toomer wanted a society that would transcend past race and did not often use the new "black" forms that many authors of that era were using.

Their voices rise...the pine trees are guitars, Strumming, pine-needles fall like sheets of rain... Their voices rise...the chorus of the cane Is caroling a vesper to the stars...(I, 21-24) Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts, Bootleggers in silken shirts, Ballooned, zooming Cadillacs, Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks. (II, 1-4)

Wallace Stevens , Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock (1931):

Stevens often tricks the reader with his works , and often used pop culture as the focus of his subjects.

The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.


Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro (1916):


Pound intrests were universal, the way he often introduced new cultural policies throughout his works.


The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

 enjoy.

-the MS team.