These lyrics mark Frost as a severe and unaccommodating writer: they are ironic, troubled and ambiguous in many of the ways modernist poems are. Despite a lamentable gift for public impersonations ...

S. Eliot poem “The Waste Land” that may evoke the Book of Genesis. It certainly captures the message of Ash Wednesday. Published in 1922, Eliot’s modernist poem laments the spiritual poverty ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...

His exposure to Western poets helped shape his modernist style. The era marked the start of the poet's legendary status, as the national crisis was deepening in the 1930s. The Beast, a poem ...