Modernist Poetry Project by Neema Rock https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h "September, 1918" (1919) - Amy Lowell en-us 2021-01-07 00:07:34 UTC 2025-09-24 09:04:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Amy Lowell uses detailed emotions and descriptions in her work "September, 1918" as a way to describe the effects of WWI as she manages to find a sense of peace during the war. Along with the hope for a change and her desire to find that peace and tranquility again. 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1061546863 2021-01-07 00:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1061546863 The Symbolism of Open Windows 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1066021505 "The houses...open windows". The speaker reminiscing on a time where people felt free and peaceful. Feelings of nostalgia over a time when they could open their windows and let in the positiveness of the outside world. Now that may not be possible due to the circumstances of the war.]]> 2021-01-08 04:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1066021505 Personification 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1066025980 "And the houses ran along them laughing out of square, open windows." Using the word laughter (a human trait) to describe the houses. When you think of laughter, you think of it being used in a bright or positive tone. Further expressing what life was like pre-war or at least how she wants life to be like again.]]> 2021-01-08 04:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1066025980 The Want to Make Things New and Better 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069167490 She is longing to see a day like the one described as a beautiful autumn day. Where there is no war, no hostility. Currently she feels broken by the war. She knows the world is in a fragmented state at the moment but she is hopeful for the future. She imagines and dreams about the world being a peaceful and better place again.]]> 2021-01-09 02:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069167490 "This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight; the trees glittered with the tumbling of leaves.” 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069169880 We get the imagery of a beautiful and perfect day but in reality they are currently amidst a dark war.]]> 2021-01-09 02:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069169880 Hopeful 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069170488 Amy shows that even in the midst of war, you can still hold onto hope and be optimistic for brighter and more promising days to come.]]> 2021-01-09 02:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069170488 Broken 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069223707 2021-01-09 03:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069223707 Fragmentation 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069254324 2021-01-09 04:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069254324 Simile 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069261094 "The sidewalks shone like alleys of dropped maple leaves."]]> 2021-01-09 04:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069261094 "Glittered", "Shone", "Laughing" 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069261658 Positive outlooks]]> 2021-01-09 04:44:56 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069261658 Disillusionment 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069269510 There are some feelings of disillusionment and disappointment that they are still in the middle of a war that she wants to escape from.]]> 2021-01-09 04:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069269510 Restoration 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069274592 She is dealing with this crisis by reminiscing over and imagining the perfect day and hoping when that perfect day will come. Using this notion of a perfect day as a restorative force, comfort, and a way to distract herself from the realities of current war life.]]> 2021-01-09 05:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069274592 "Some day there will be no war..." 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069277220 Looking forward to a brighter future.]]> 2021-01-09 05:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069277220 A Shift in Mood 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069288304 The sudden shift in the mood of the poem went from discussing about a perfect autumn day to stating "soon there will be no war". This statement and the notion of war as something that is grim, ruthless, dreadful (all these negative connotations), disrupts the light, bright and positive flow the poem had going on. Similar to what war actually can do, interrupt peace. The war had disturbed these calm and beautiful days of life and now she has to "balance (herself) upon a broken world".]]> 2021-01-09 05:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069288304 "To-day I can only gather it and put it into my lunch-box, for I have time for nothing." 23rockn https://padlet.com/23rockn/izmq0l4l9528ub7h/wish/1069292349 The inability for her to savor and appreciate this perfect autumn afternoon because she is so preoccupied with the depression that the war brings and can’t actually be present to relish these moments. Instead she has to save these precious memories for later and remember these moments when the war is over.

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