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October 16, 2019 • 23:59 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
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This poet was of the Auden generation and was only briefly a member of the Communist party.

In his poem, The Pylons, he averred that the Pylons are Bare like nude giant girls that have no secrets. This prompted the label, Pylon Poets, for the new generation of poets who were happy to use the gas works or pistons of a steam-engine as poetic imagery. (Name this poet.)

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    The Pylon Poets is referred to a 1930s group of British poets whose subject matter dealt with technological modernity. Stephen spenders poem The Pylons (1933) inspired the name of this school. The Pylon poets approached a socialist and marxist position in their writing. The group of 1930s left wing poets include W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis Macneice. They used industrial imagery & references to trains, skyscrapers, factories, roads etc.

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