Eliot is perhaps the best-known modernist poet of the day.
Eliot is perhaps the best-known modernist poet of the day. But what exactly is modernism? while it is difficult to rigidly define the artistic movement, modernism was a series of literary experimentation that attempted to describe the changing world through the modification of basic literary guidelines, such as chronology or form. Poems like “The Waste Land”, for example, splice together various voices and texts to reflect the spiritual desolation of Europe after the First World War.