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• Imagism
• Amygism
• Represents the modern age she experiments with free verse
• Critic Flint related to modernist manifesto Ezra pound, flint etc. Rules of poetry
• They experiment with free verse
• Economy of speech
• No extra words and adjectives that do not contribute to anything
• Ts Eliot the objective correlative , a set of concrete object
• Patterns is one of her famous poem
• She is a lesbian? she cohabiting a woman?

Patterns

• A woman waiting for her husband which went to a war and not return
• brocaded gown we assume it is an old time that she lived in
• She experimenting with style and form
• Modernists liked to experiment etc
• She remained conservative that retain conventional verse form but this poem shows her experimenting
• Connotative of Romantics by daffodils and if its not be romantic it is melancholic?
• She is walking through a garden paths shows her richness and mansion to an upper middle class meaning prosperous
• Pronoun I makes it subjective and personal
• Entering the subconscious of a woman
• Wind is blowing softly
• Repetitively patterns, brocaded gown
• powdered hair and jewelled fan
• garden paths maybe paths of life
• color symbolism incoherent with the feelings she is carrying right now
• soft looking feminine looking outfit but she feels suffocated, dying
• The daffodils and squills Flutter in the breeze As they please
• wordsworth
• Stiff and rigid feelings
• woman bathing aesthetic but marble basin is rigid
• Erotic imagery imployed
• silky gown
• “heavy-booted lover” man is a soldier
• “Aching, melting, unafraid” erotic
• she is seeking shelter in a male even though she is suffering male authority
• bosom and blossom half rhyme
• dialog like language
• flashback
• she wants to be liberated by marriage
• dress also symbolizes the strict rules
• I stood upright too, Held rigid to the pattern”
• He as Colonel, I as Lady” extravagant lifestyle
• occasionally she uses rhyme irregular and broken which how she feel, broken
• In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?
• On the eve of WWI
• what makes her modernist poet?
• Formal experiment with the avant-garde, each individual unique, kill the past, logic and grammar.
• Spoken language tendencies
• stream of consciousness and non-linearity
• they believed that emotional states are unique
• aim is to expose the uniqueness and individuality of emotions
• distorting the romantic principle that form should be organic
• shape itself as it develops
• poetry was to adapt to contemporary speech? and american speech
• juxtaposition of different images

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🖋 Amy Lowell – Modernist Poet and “Patterns” Analysis

I. Amy Lowell’s Poetics and Philosophy

1. Imagism and “Amygism”

• A key figure in the Imagist movement, Amy Lowell embraced a poetic style emphasizing:
• While Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, and F.S. Flint laid out the Imagist “manifesto,” Lowell adopted and adapted these principles.

2. Modernist Orientation

• Although she retained elements of traditional verse structure in some works, Lowell was deeply modernist in:
• She explored the unique emotional states of the individual, a major concern of modernist literature.

3. Personal and Political Context

• Openly lesbian, she cohabited with actress Ada Dwyer Russell, who may have inspired many of her poems.
• Her engagement with repression, femininity, and desire is filtered through this personal lens—intertwining gender, sexuality, and poetic experimentation.

II. Analysis of “Patterns”

1. Setting and Situation

• The speaker is a woman of the upper class, indicated by her brocaded gown, jewelled fan, and formal garden.
• She walks through her garden awaiting the return of her lover, a soldier, who has died in war.
• The setting is rigid and artificial—a reflection of social norms, gender constraints, and emotional repression.

2. Themes

A. Gender Roles and Constraint

• The speaker’s gown becomes a metaphor for societal restriction: </aside>