In 1936 Yeats wrote, "I too have tried to be modern". How does his poetry reflect the modernist movement?

... In 1936 Yeats wrote, "I too have tried to be modern". How does his poetry reflect the modernist movement? Modernism is the persistent experimentation with language and form. It relies and is dependent upon poetic images and mythology. It gave licence to artists to break away from convention and gave liberation from tradition. The period between, if regarded as a time-bound concept, 1890 and 1930 (Childs, p.12) saw the emphasis shifting away from the representational towards the subjective and impressionistic. The artist's focus no longer remained on what was seen, rather how it was seen. The presentation of the artist's vision of the object was fundamental to the artists of the modernistic movement, not the object (as it was with their literary predecessors). The term 'Modernism' has many definitions and meanings. Due to the limited scope available in this essay it is not possible to include a comprehensive study

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