LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:9 September 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Critical Analysis of Walt Whitman and Philip Larkin as Modern Poets

Professor Maratab Abid
Mooneer Yousaf
Shamsa Kanwal
Hifsa Dost Muhammad
Fozia Butt
Anam Shazadi
Zahid Hussain


Abstract

The following research paper deals with the claims of Walt Whitman and Philip Larkin to be regarded as modern poets. In this research paper we will discuss what is modernism and to what extent Walt Whitman and Larkin’s poetry be called modern poetry whether it contains modern elements and what’s the dilemma of a modern man. We will highlight the different important themes of modernism like displacement, disillusionment, nostalgia of old England, pre and post war fears and the most important is the man’s tussle for his identification and his place in the society.

Keywords:

Modernism, agnosticism, shallowness of life, Identification of self

Introduction

Modernism is a movement that occurred towards the end of the 19th Century and lasted until roughly the middle of the 20th Century. Modernism rejected the previous movements in literature and art. Previously, literature and art followed strict standards and traditional methods in which the writer or artist expressed his or her artistic nature. Modernism rejected these concepts. Modernism allowed writers and artists to find their own artistic voice and appreciated the individualism of the artist. While the Romantics may have focused on some aspects of individualism, they did so within the context of nature as an overriding force within the artist. Modernists rejected this worship of nature.

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Professor Maratab Abid
maratab_abid@yahoo.com
University of Lahore, Sargodha campus

Mooneer Yousaf
mooneer2008@yahoo.com
M-Phil (Literature) Student
University of Lahore, Sargodha campus

Shamsa Kanwal
M-Phil (Literature) Student
University of Lahore, Sargodha campus

Hifsa Dost Muhammad
M-Phil (Literature) Student
University of Lahore, Sargodha campus

Fozia Butt
fatimakhawaja786@gmail.com
M.A English
University of Lahore Sargodha campus

Anam Shazadi
anam.pri6@gmail.com
M.A English
University of Lahore Sargodha campus

Zahid Hussain
zeealvi218@gmail.com
M.A English
University of Lahore Sargodha campus
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