Blake+T


 * If you want me to be honest I still have absolutely no idea what the writer is trying to say let alone what the poem says. Now if I where to say how this poem is connected in some way to modernism I honestly am sitting writing this thing going “what in the heck did I just read”. But I will give you what I have, from the class discussion yesterday it was unanimously decided that this guy has a social problem of some kind. A few times I noticed that he mentioned teacups and Michelangelo. If I were to guess it could have been written around the Victorian age because art and tea were huge during this time. He also mentioned yellow smoke which could of meant that he wrote it in the late Victorian age because that was when the real heavy hitting part of Industrial Revolution took place. And along with that workers did whatever they wanted and dumped and produced chemical any way they pleased. So I bet the yellow smoke was a bi product of some kind of manufacturing. Now I also know from the class discussion this guy was lonely from his social problems. During the modernism period they was a lot of alienation and loss of identity. So looking at this thing this poem I think is very much modernist because all the facts are there alienation, and mentions of modern manufactureing and mentions of a period in time.**