Objectivists

Objectivists Poetry-

· The name Objectivist was a term Louis Zukofsy had to come up with when Harriet Monroe (the editor of “Poetry”) required them to have a name when she published them in the February issue of “Poetry.”

· Louis Zukofsy, Charles Reznikko, and George Oppen.

· They were mostly active 1930 through the 40’s In Brooklyn New York

· This group of people was in New York this small compact city, all having lived through and experienced the modernists’ movement. The Second World War happened later in the run of Objectivist but not when created. I believe what pulled these people together was the amount of people thinking the same way in a heavily populated condensed area.

· Yes, Louis Zukofsy’s “Sincerity and Objectification.” The piece states that the Objectivist treats the poem as an object; they emphasize sincerity, intelligence, and their ability to look clearly at the world.

· George Oppen’s “1930’s” The knowledge not of sorrow, you were/saying, but of boredom/Is — aside from reading speaking/smoking —/Of what, Maude Blessingbourne it was, /wished to know when, having risen, /“approached the window as if to see/what really was going on”;/And saw rain falling, in the distance/more slowly, /The road clear from her past the window-/glass —/Of the world, weather-swept, with which/one shares the century.

· This is of the genre of Objectivist because of the claim to see “what really was going on.” It speaks to the fact that he has this intelligence and the ability to see what is happening around him clearly.

· “The Forms of Love” by George Oppen http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20374