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Hart Crane: A Romantic Poet of the Complex Genre of High Modernism
Mostafa Faruk Ahamed
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.12.002
Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
For many decades Herold Hart Crane, an American poet, who played a very important role in the development of Modern American Literature in the early decades of 20th century, had been considered as a romantic poet by many critics for his romantic verses. His poetries are considered not only the reflection of the contemporary social phenomenon, ideology, and thoughts, rather they are prophetic. On the other hand, in the early decades of 20th century, in American society, modernism marked a simultaneous movement which tremendously affected the emergence of new values in field of politics, economy, lifestyle, literature, and literary thoughts. The influence of rapid industrializations and the First World War not only changed the philosophy of human life, but also changed the writing style of the contemporary American writers. The new crowded urban life, which is a result of rapid industrializations, and the fear of war made the human being selfish. Humans lost his romantic attitudes towards the literature. A complexity emerged. Hart Crane also could not avoid this complexity. If we study his life style, philosophy of life, and poetic diction, we will surely confine his intelligence not between romanticism and modernism separately. Rather, we can call him a Modernist Romantic poet. In short, Crane can be declared as a romantic poet of the complex genre of high modernism.
contemporary, complexity, despair, disappointingly, experimentation, imagery, imitation industrialization, modernism, optimism, romanticism, rhythmic, heterosexual, homosexual, relationship, revolution, disappointingly, urban, vulgarism
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