Other Poets of the Modern Era

a delicate white flower in the hand of an empty work gloveModernist poetry was about creating something that spoke to the masses and reflected the overall feeling of America during that dynamic time period. It was not about tradition like Romanticism, nor was it just about breaking tradition with heavy symbolism and unorthodox structure like Imagism of the Modern era. Mainstream Modernist poetry was about speaking out and appealing to the diversity of American culture.