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Thinking Activity : Modern Poems

Here I'm given my interpretation on these three short modern poems .  1.   T. S. Eliot,  Morning at the window They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,  And along the trampled edges of the street  I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids  Sprouting despondently at area gates.  The brown waves of fog toss up to me       Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,  And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts  An aimless smile that hovers in the air  And vanishes along the level of the roofs. The poem draws a picture of morning with the lots of work and poet uses the metap hor and imagery like ' damp souls of housemaids' , also shows poverty of modern life with the different examples,  muddy skirts, twisted faces. 2.    H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), ‘The Pool'  Are you alive?   I touch you.   You quiver like a sea-fish.   I...