Modernist Poems : Activity - Identify modernist metaphors in these short poem. Here I'm given my interpretation on these ten short modern poems. Modernism was set in motion, in one sense, through a series of cultural shocks. Modernism is with the inner self and consciousness. Modern society is perceived as impersonal, capitalist, and antagonistic to the artistic impulse. War most certainly had a great deal of influence on such ways of approaching the world. 1. T. E. Hulme The Embankment (The fantasia of a fallen gentleman on a cold, bitter night) Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy. Oh, God, make small The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie. The poet walking in the street of london and he find ecstasy in blithering kind of thing, he remembers his happy days of his past life as he included in his poem ...