What is Modern Poetry?

What is Modern Poetry?

Background of the Modernism: Following the First World War (28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918) the mass destructions, loss of about 40 million human lives, cruelty, sensations of helplessness & hopelessness and violence motivated by predatory profit-motive as influenced by the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. This all resulted in an atmosphere of pessimism, existential crisis, and impetus of urgency to reconstruct the whole worldview in new ways which might happen to be better than the old ways. This theoretical urgency paved the way for Modernism with the Four Fathers of Modernism: Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche, whose theories deconstructed centuries-old worldviews and constructed novel ways of looking at life and the world. These changes became more vibrant in the 20th century which signifies the paradigm shift from 19th century Victorianism and long-cherished established rules, traditions, conventions, morals and values. Modernism became…