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S/LI/76. The fragmentation of the Speaking ?I?: From Imagism to Modernism

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2006
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This essay explores the speaking 'I' of poetry and how it has embarked on a process of fragmentation brought about by the post-war circumstances of the early twentieth century. The subsequent atmosphere of disillusionment prompted the Imagist movement with Ezra Pound as its main proponent, which later developed into Modernism as heralded by T.S. Eliot. Both movements are examined in an effort to explore the fragmented psychological state of modern social denizens as analogized in modern poetry.

 

KEYWORDS: Fragmentation, speaking I, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Imagism, Modernism,