Within my groups pages I dug a little deeper into them and found myself intrigued in the different poets mentioned in the introduction. First I was introduced to Robert Frost who was mainly influenced by British poets, his life story differed by the narrator. While reading I understood that him and his work was loved and hated because of the fatherly words his work gave. He was most known for his infamous quote “ He who dies with the most toys win” had some backlash towards it. For me, I believe that quote holds a metaphoric torch because it isn’t about the material accolades that are the toys but rather the impacting of the world that are the toys. I know everyone will receive this quote in so many different ways but for me its deeper than what meets the eye. “ The poet is the priest of the invisible” what Wallace Stevens was attempting to say is that poetry is the way to the soul and what lies within the soul which is truth. Your soul holds the truth and what’s realistic about it is truth is invisible to the outside world until you let it be heard. Through the language it’s as if a sermon is being given. Wallace Stevens began the era of creativity. Being a late starter, it concludes why he was so vigorous when it came to his art. His ability to create modernism in his own language was due to his years of learning his craft. His life story parades this sense of willpower and it helps us better fathom why he was so challenging. From arguing with Robert Frost and challenging his ways. It’s to be said that Stevens was described as a poet of the mind. he believed that there was no objective reality, we make our reality through our consciousness. Our minds perceive, interprets, and impresses upon our awareness at that given moment and after reading that particular line it made me sit and think about it as a whole. I never thought about it in that way but it’s true considering the fact that I was consistently taught to “manifest positive thoughts” you influence your reality but your mind. Modernism is defined as modern character, tendencies, or values that has some adherence to or sympathy with what is modern. It’s no secret of the tremendous significance Modernism holds on the artist in the literary world, but it indeed goes farther than that culturally. Modernism introduced the unsettling reality of truth and all its findings with being only imaginary.  Stevens began studying the Victorian era of poetry language which focused on morals and religion. This began to show though the works, and with this the sophisticated people became less intrigued on the realness being brought by the words. Ezra Pound was a breath of fresh air. His principals to the language carried a sense of beauty about it. His three tenets all made for sure the art was present, direct, and never repetitive because that took away from the musical phrase sequence it portrayed. Pound created the formula “ A poem should not mean/ but be” which goes back to his second tenet which states “ To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.”. Pound later went on to try and create his own fringe entitled “ Vorticism” that failed. It enforced that an image is not reproduced as reality but as a construct, charged with visions of history, cultural allusions, the collective unconscious, and inscribe with the existing study of his language. His quote “ The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is encowled with energy” 

Pounds quote stuck out most to be because I can understand his saying the most. Its entailing the image of life and all that comes with it. There are so many layers to life which makes it less of an idea and more of a complex figuration infused with those ideas and the energy or willpower to achieve those such things. William Carlos Williams used his life experiences to prepare him. “ Where else can what we are seeking arise from but speech” my translation is how could one seek a dream if they don’t believe it? The first is always self. Williams was a full-time physician with a private practice and a full-time writer. Creating a number of things like novels, short stories, plays, autobiography, and poetry he never stopped creating using every free moment to create. In Williams earlier days he let his friend Ezra Pound have some influence over his literary models. Becoming captivated with the romantic poets but he eventually steered away from it. Williams key factor to his poetry was the realism of America. Using ordinary people’s thoughts and patterns to create art he strived to paint the picture of the authentic American experience. Williams let his own personal beliefs hinder his deserved recognition, his success was delayed because of the non-supporters in power. He then received his flowers when he died. Eliot Prufrock set his own tone for poetry by disowning his American roots and embracing Anglicanism which is the church of England. E.E. Cummings was a new and fresh innovative being that showcased the realms of self-consciousness. He delighted and lived in the messiness of consciousness every day. Whereas before it was very strict and rigid, he treated language as a flexible body that he could use.