INTRODUCTION (BY ARANTXA)

First of all we would like to say that this paper has to deal from the Modernism to the 2^nd world war. We have structured the paper as follows:

1^st Victorian poets

2^nd Pre-Raphaelists

3^rd Georgian poets

4rt Modernism

5^th The 30’s

6^th New Romantics in the 40’s

I’m going to describe some characteristics of all this ages and the poet that we will focus on. Firstly, the Victorian era was a period of great political, social and economic change. The Empire recovered from the loss of the American colonies and entered a period of rapid expansion. This expansion, combined with increasing industrialisation and mechanisation, contributed to a prolonged period of economic growth. So, we can say that it was a very richness moment in all aspects. In this epoque we are going to analyze Tennyson. On one hand, we can find a short biography of him where we can see some information about his life and the importance that his best friend “Arthur Hallan” had in order to write his poems. And, on the other hand, we could see the list of his most well-known poems. We have done a short analysis of his most popular and famous poems such as: “The Lady of Shalott”, “Ulysses”, “Morte d’Arthur” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.

Secondly, in the pre-raphaelists we must say that towards the end of this century english poets began to take an interest in French symbolism and Victorian poetry entered a decadent fin-de-siecle phase. In this age we have paid our attention to the poem “A forsaken garden” written by Algernon Charles Swinburne. There, we would find the main topic of the poem and the most relevant features that we have found in all the stanzas. We will see how this poet talks about the garden, surrounding it of negative connotations in almost all the stanzas and how this pessimistic view changes in the last ones.

Thirdly, in the georgian poets we must say that this poets were the first major grouping of the post-Victorian era. In this age we’ll see a short introduction of why Georgian poets are called like that and which poets form this group. We will also find a little biography of Rupert Brooke(he’s the author we have chosen to analyze in this part). And, finally we have analyze his poem “The Soldier” where we will enter in the world of war. In the poem we’ll find death, patriotism, sadness, going to the war and being far from their families etc…

Having talked about the Georgians, we are going to pay our attention to the “Modernism”. In this period, american writers were also seen at the forefront of avant-garde practices. Here we’ll focus on William Butler Yeats and his poem “The second coming”, where he expresses his believes about western civilization.

Then, we will enter in the world of the thirties. In this period we have to say that the main topics in poetry were the social injustices or war, although in the poem that we will analyze we cannot find any topic related with those ones which I have just mentioned. In this part of the paper, we’ll find, firstly, a short introduction of this period. And finally we’ll focus on W.H.Auden and his poem “Funeral Blues” which mostly deals with political issues, although there’s despair of opinions.

And, eventually we will talk about the forties.Here we have to say that as with the poets of the First World War, the work of these writers can be seen as something of an interlude in the history of 20th century poetry. Furthermore, in this age we have chosen to analyze the “Poem in October” by Dylan Thomas. There we’ll see his love towards his native place(country where he was born). And we´ll realise that the main topic of this poem is “nature”.

VICTORIAN POETS (by Inma C. Sanchis Garcia- Astilleros)

PRE- RAPHAELISTS (By Annalisa Garofalo)

GEORGIAN POETS (by Tania Sendra Ferragud)

MODERNISM (By Ani Tadevosyan)

THE THIRTIES (by Sara Lozano Aragó)

NEW ROMANTICS IN THE FORTIES (By M. Elena Mármol Rodríguez)

CONCLUSION (By Mari Carmen Mora Vives)