Modernist poets and their poems

1." The Wild Swans at Coole"

Poet: William Butler Yeats

Date Published: 1919

Significant Poems: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", "Memory", "Two Songs of a Fool".

Yeats is best known for his romantic poem "Lake Isle of Innisfree" but he called that 'full of old mythology,' from "The Celtic Twilight." "The Wild Swans at Coole" broke new ground for the Irish writer and dramatist as he sought to integrate a natural symbolism with lyrical beauty.

2. "Leaves of Grass"

Poet: Walt Whitman

Date Published: June 1855

Significant Poems: "Song of Myself, I Sing", "The Body Electric", "There Was A Child Went Forth." 

3. "North of Boston"

Poet: Robert Frost

Date Published: 1914

Significant Poems: "Mending Wall", "The Death of the Hired Man", "After Apple Picking", "Home Burial", "The Wood Pile". 

4. "Lustra"

Poet: Ezra Pound

Date Published: 1916/17

Significant Poems: "In a Station of the Metro", "The River Merchant's Wife", "A Pact", "The Faun".

5. "Harmonium"

Poet: Wallace Stevens

Date Published: 1923

Significant Poems: "The Emperor of Ice-cream", "Earthy Anecdote", "Anecdote of the Jar", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".