Question

Rewrite the entire Romantic poem. Focus particularly on making your rewrite read like a modernist poem in terms of its language, style, literary elements, and themes. Be sure to incorporate into your rewrite at least three of the six qualities of modernist poetry listed below.
Remember that modernist poems
The Poem has to be "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by William Wordsworth.
● Capture the cynicism and disappointment many people felt toward outdated nineteenth-century ideas
● Focus on the complexities of modern life
● Highlight the alienation of the individual in the modern world
● Break with past literary traditions and styles
● Employ references to diverse cultures, belief systems, and histories
● Use experimental language and techniques, such as drawing a distinct line between the poet and the speaker and writing from multiple perspectives and in different voices

Answer 1

Answer:

I drifted solitary as a cloud,

Aimless in my existential shroud,

Cut off from broader human strife and crowd,

In the vexing entanglement of the urban's shroud.

When all at once I saw in my lament,

A sea of faces, hurried and bent,

Upon their self-imposed, relentless ascent,

Their wasted toil, a life spent.

Amidst the steel and glass, nature's art,

A rush of daffodils to my heart,

Yet amid the din, I felt worlds apart,

A solitary soul with a fragmented start.

Illumining the soul-dead city streets,

A host, in my fragmented heart beats,

But in this realm, no solace greets,

A yearning for connection complete.

For oft when on my couch I lie,

The memories of the daffodils lie,

Beside the springs, beneath the open sky,

To soothe the anxiety, despair defy.

Thus, in a modern world's refrain,

The longing for solace, pursuit in vain,

The individual spirit's solemn pain,

In a fragmented and lonesome domain.