“A poet is an architect who designs and plans with words.” Compare the ways at least two poets you have studied have given structure to their poems, and to what effect. In Chinese, the character for poetry is composed of “word” and “temple.” Words are the stones, precisely chiseled and laid, to create the sacred, culturally resonant whole. Both poems and buildings achieve their effects through attention to detail, texture, and structure; awareness of cultural and historic resonance; and spatial and temporal (not to mention emotional and conceptual) development. Architecture describes, spatial and temporal, and connection can be seen in the dual meaning of “stanza”: a group of lines in a poem and a room in Italian. By this combination of meanings, a poem is a walk through rooms. Each and every poet reflects the era and period of its time. The modernist era of 1950s was a timeline of progress in every field of art, architecture and literature. This genre of modernism was associated with radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, skepticism and reflexive attributes of the modern world. Modernism was a direct response to events such as the industrial revolution, technological change, World War 1 and the depression. Industrialization welcomed the age of machines and buildings offering a radical urban life. Poets of the modern day English literature were poets who wrote about human pathos and life of modernity. The futility of life is strikingly visible in the works of these modern poets. They regardless of time and place express that human nature does not deviate much, it remains the same. To the modern poet, their poetry is an effective means of communication where they architect their own views of human nature. Elliot and Owen are amongst such social poets who have focused on humanity and vanity of life.Owen on a closer look can be called a confessional poet also who uses language to explore the Universe where life bears constant struggles. In contrast, T.S. Eliot focuses his poetry on the human experience. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent”- a critical essay by T.S. Eliot, he wrote about the mind of the poet as a catalyst.Eliots poetry is dreamy imagery and a surrealistic imagery that sometimes becomes tricky to comprehend.he never favored the industrial life. He simply reflects the impact of mechanization on urban life, mainly the increased pollution and an overall sense of sterility and spiritual poverty.his deep concerns can be clearly felt deeply in his poem poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. The Lines "restless nights in one-night cheap hotels" and "sawdust restaurants with oyster shells" in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' illustrates the drab and dirty neighborhood, where Prufrock lives in the solitary gloom. Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument(Prufrock) He also structurally constructed his poems that were laden with allusions, quotations, footnotes, and exaggerations. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” In his much-acclaimed poem “The Waste Land”, he goes at length to describe the futility of modernity post World War-1. Sense of desertion, desolation, and groundlessness of faith are his bricks and cements for the poetry he wrote. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—Almost, at times, the Fool.(Prufrock) He exposes the thirst of life of the modern day man going in vain.eliots doctrine of impersonality is closely linked to his claim that poetry poetry was “classical” and not “romantic”, by which he meant in part that it was more inclined to be a methodology of form and balance rather than the expression of emotions.he also reiterates the connotation that poetry should avoid emotions. in 'The Waste Land' does a variety of different characters in different voices. Paradoxically, by trying several personae on and off and not identifying himself with any one persona, he manages to achieve a kind of impersonality.he in a way captures the monotony of life dictated by the various peroids of the day as the hours pass by ​. These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih ( ​The Waste Land ​V.431-433) The use of fragmentation as one of his architectural tools demonstrates the chaos of modern life and juxtaposes it against one another. He transcends the fall of human psyche after the World War-1. He also collages foreign words, formal styles, and various tones to represent the damaged human race. Another tool of his poetry is myths and rituals extensively used in ‘The Waste Land’. He drew heavily from ancient fertility rituals wherein the fertility of the land was connected to the health of the Fisher king who is the central character of ‘The Waste Land’. Eliot saw the death of the Fisher King as symbolic of human life robbed of sexuality in the modern potent world and he associated it to the vanity of urban life. Water as a symbol in his poetry also relates to life and death.“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” He draws upon the traditional meanings of water to cleanse and bring relief like in 'The Waste Land' and in 'Prufrock' who hears the “mermaids” seductive calls. “Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed. Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors; 180 Departed, have left no addresses.” waste land Wilfred Owen It would be un right to challenge the claim that Owen was unparalleled in his war poetry. His writings came from intense personal experiences as a soldier who wrote with with unrivaled power of the physical moral and psychological trauma of the warring days.he had survived with first hand experiences of war and had undergone the horrors of gas warfare used during the second world war. his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is an attempt to outlay the futility of men caught in a gas attack. He wrote in irregular verse paragraphs, he describes the general condition of men involved in the war. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. He also hightlighted the shock of a gas attack and then dwells on the aftermath of this tragic event on someone who lives through it. GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And floundering like a man in fire or lime.-- Major architectural structures in his poems include the surreal, irrational nature of war, its futility and the poet's role in expressing the atrocities; the repression of emotion vs. being alive to the carnage and the confusion of battles and death; and the immorality of the war. He himself remained aloof by rarely writingabout his own experiences, preferring to impart a more universal message. Unlike Eliot who prefers to remain neutral in his poetry, Owen in the Poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is speaking in his own voice. His method of direct address to the reader makes his appeal in the final lines especially compelling. My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori. Speaker in "Dulce et Decorum est" This is one of the most memorable lines of Owen's poetry. It translates from Latin to: "It is sweet and right to die for one's country". In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Owen opens with a description of a group of demoralized soldiers retreating from the front lines of the battlefield. The men are clearly fatigued: “Men marched asleep,” (the narrator observes) and so worn down that they are “deaf even to the hoots" and "Of gas-shells dropping softly behind”. Owen himself was recovering from a shell shock post war in a hospital, his highest architectural tool was his profound descriptions of the horrors of war. Through this dramatic narrative, he expresses a vivid picture of the wailing soldiers. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.” ― ​Wilfred Owen ​, A real time poet who expressed through his heart and involved himself with his work creates a striking difference with Eliot's work. A modern poet to the core he used literary devices and narratives unlike the ancient symbols used by Eliot for his poetry. Both poets worked heavily to highlight the pathos in the name of modernity and urbanness. The futility of war is more concentrated in Owen's works yet the commonality can not be ignored in both the poets. He came to be known as the early modernist who landed up creating his own writing styles like free verses symbols etc.his work is a striking culmination of the old and the new.Owen also became well known because he kept creating his own style by using truthful narratives and vivid imageries.he openly attackes people who create war and think that it is “wsweet and nice to die for your country”