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work that has been completed by me under the Supervisor of Tipu Sultan ,
Assistant Professor of English and Tania Tabaswum Tani, Assistant Professor of
English Govt. Azizul Haque College, Bogura. It is neither copied out from
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Rahima Akter
M.A. Final
Session 2018-2019
Class Roll : 125
Reg No : 18311059999
Department of English
Govt. Azizul Haque College, Bogura.
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Govt. Azizul Haque College, Bogura.
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To complete any kind of research work of term paper successfully is a very

difficult and laborious task. No one of us is able to complete this kind of job single
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I am really grateful to my supervisors, Tipu Sultan for the help, advise, instructions
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with various crucial information for the successful completion of the term paper.

I am also very grateful to the head and the other teachers of the department who
directly or indirectly helped me to complete the term paper successfully. Not only
that, I have also taken help from some of my friends, notebooks, study guide, text
book and internet for making the term paper more informative.

Rahima Akter
M.A. Final
Session 2018-2019
Class Roll : 125
Reg No : 18311059999
Department of English
Govt. Azizul Haque College, Bogura.
 ABSTRACT

In “Modernism in Frost Poetry as a Study of Objects,” I focus on a group of

modernist American poets—Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, William Carlos
Williams, and George Open—who demonstrate an interest in objects and their
transformation into aesthetic things. To distinguish between “objects” and “things,” I
use “thing theory,” which grew out of the work of Bill Brown and, to date, has not
been adequately applied to lyric poetry. While the object represents an entity one
encounters in the world, the thing contains diverse associations and meanings that
exceed its material function. Among modernist poets, it is essential to study this
point of transformation, from object into thing, to examine the “ideas in things” that
get invested in this process. Such a study proves necessary in light of the significant
role we understand things to play in modernist literature and in the modern era, when
subjects were beginning to negotiate selfhood through and against a world of
material things. Further, “things” are commonly recognized as a particular focus of
modernist poets, thanks in part to William’s famous dictate in Paterson, “no ideas
but in things.” Poets ranging from Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and
T.S. Eliot, in addition to those in my study, all present poems in which things serve
as a rhetorical focus. While several critics have acknowledged this modernist
fascination, no study has addressed how modernist poets use the thing to resolve
personal and poetic preoccupations. By focusing, specifically, on the subject’s
relationship to the object, I explore how things reveal the poet’s process of
constituting a poetic self by shedding particular anxieties over poetic
Function and projecting a voice of authority.

By bringing poets as diverse and Frost and Open into critical conversations about
modernism, this study broadens understanding of a uniquely American strain of
modernist poetry. American modernists were deeply conscious of the cultural
authority inherent in the poetic act, as they sought formal and vocal innovations that
could grant the poet a linguistic means to resolve feelings of fragmentation and
alienation in the creation of poetic things.
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SL. No. Contents Page No

1 A few words about Robert frost 1-2
2 Introduction 3-4
3 Definition of modernism 5
4 Modernism in English literature 6-10
5 Major modern poets 10-12
6 Features of English modern poems 13
7 An Analysis of Frost’s poems 14-16
8 Touches of modernism in Frosts poems 16
9 Conclusion 17
10 References 18