The term Modernism refers to a movement, which began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th century. The modernist movement affected poetry, fiction, drama, painting, music and architecture. The true birth of modernism in poetry is often dated to the publication of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in 1917.
             Modernist poets were concerned with breaking away from established rules, traditions and conventions, and finding a distinctive contemporary mode of expression, through many experiments in both form and style, the main concern was language and how to use it the most effective way.
             Modernism took place from the reaction against Victorian ideals, which now seemed questionable in the widespread confusion and suffering of the early 20th century. The modern poet had a different world from the Victorian poets to consider, and as a result used new forms and styles, which fitted this new worldview.
             The critics of modernism, like Richard Aldington, have argued that just because the age is confused is no reason why art generally should be confused. But this is a risk the modern poets ran in their attempts to reveal the experience of the world though art. And the most successful modern poems represent a principle of logic, reason and order which is more subtle, and complex, because its more sufficient to contemporary truth, than the established methods. A result of this experiment in form of the modernists was a unique rise in literary criticism and magazines. The self-conscious modern poet was often also a critic, same with T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and John Crowe Ransom.
             Modernism changed the face of art by letting the artists fully express themselves in a way never before accepted. It allowed for the fully artistic value of a painting to exist over the boundaries of related imagery. Modernism, in its removal from naturalism, let art become more of a mirror to society and the self, rather...