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Villareal -- American Modernism: The Great Gatsby - Spring 2025: Poetry

Research each of the below poems by doing the following:

1. Search their title in these places for overviews to better understand the poem:

2. Find in-depth scholarly works for each poem in the following places:

Rejection of Tradition and Embrace of Innovation

William Carlos Williams "The Red Wheelbarrow" (1938)

Ezra Pound "In a Station of the Metro" (1913)

E. E. Cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (1926)

Focus on Subjectivity and Inner Experience

T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915)

Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning" (1923)

Paul Laurence Dunbar "We Wear the Mask" (1895)

Langston Hughes "I, Too" (1926)

Countee Cullen "A Brown Girl Dead" (1923)

Alienation and Loss

Claude McKay "If We Must Die" (1919)

T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men" (1925)

Langston Hughes "Harlem" (1951)

Countee Cullen "Heritage" (1925)

Fragmentation and Nonlinear Structure

Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (1917)

H.D. "Oread" (1914)

Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" (1915)

Ambiguity and Open-endedness

Marianne Moore "Poetry" (1919)

Wilfred Owen "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1920)

Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" (1915)

Carl Sandburg "Fog" (1916)

Influence of Urbanization and Technology

Amy Lowell "The Taxi" (1914)

Carl Sandburg "Chicago" (1914)

Hart Crane "The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge" (1930)

Claude McKay "Subway Wind" (1922)

Carl Sandburg "The Harbor" (1916)

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