What are the typical aspects of poetry written from 1900's to 1950's?

Question

Do they follow any kind of routine or pattern? Im looking at poems by Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats.

Answer 1

HEY TESS u didnt spacify the geographical location (britain/america/?)anyways theres a great shift in the manners of poetry written before world war and post world war...there were many psychological discoveries made around 1913(sigmund freud,William james)so this to inspired poets to give up the barier of rhymes,meteres et all...they felt that thought should be expressed as they struck(coz thoughts dont come with punctuations).
post war poems revealed a more shattered and more realistic vision for example Hamigway....in W.B.yeast`s Second Coming he depicts this horrifying picture of the world.there are many things to be marked as far content and expressions go...the era u r talking abt is refered to as modern era and poets of this age are called modern poets.u may not find a typical pattern among modern poets since asserting individuality was the name of the game...but theme wise they ventured into satire,alienation,nothingness,psychological dilemma and so on...

Answer 2

See these links:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s1475240.htm
http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=similarities+-+Rudyard++Kipling+and+WB+Yeats+poetry&y=Search&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dcn&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=CN&u=www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/ywes/online/Volume_81/Issue_04/pdf/maf013.pdf&w=similarities+similarity+rudyard+kipling+wb+yeats+poetry&d=XaqTHvL9Py19&icp=1&.intl=us
http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=pattern+-+Rudyard++Kipling+and+WB+Yeats+poetry&y=Search&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dcn&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=CN&u=www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/ywes/online/Volume_81/Issue_04/pdf/maf013.pdf&w=pattern+patterned+patterns+rudyard+kipling+wb+yeats+poetry&d=XaqTHvL9Py19&icp=1&.intl=us

See also: Pointless waste of time
http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/26557/request-poetry
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