The Bridge

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The Bridge is an ambitious modernist epic poem by Hart Crane that reimagines American history and experience through the symbolic central image of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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instanceOf epic poem
modernist poem
aimedTo offer affirmative counter-vision to The Waste Land
author Hart Crane
centralSymbol Brooklyn Bridge
compositionPeriod late 1920s
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception initially mixed
later recognized as major work of American modernism
dedicatedTo Hart Crane’s mother
firstPublisher Black Sun Press
form lyric epic
genre long poem
hasCharacter Christopher Columbus
Pocahontas
Rip Van Winkle
modern urban narrator
includedIn American poetry canon
influencedBy The Waste Land
surface form: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Walt Whitman
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod interwar period
meter variable meter
notableSection “Atlantis”
“Cape Hatteras”
“Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge”
The River
surface form: “The River”
publicationDate 1930
setting Brooklyn Bridge
New York City
structure sequence of interlinked sections
style complex symbolism
dense imagery
lyrical intensity
subjectMatter American experience
American history
symbolizes bridge between individuals and collective nation
bridge between past and present
bridge between spiritual and material worlds
theme American identity
connection and unity
modernity
myth-making
spiritual transcendence
technology
urban life

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Hart Crane notableWork The Bridge
Hart Crane workedOn The Bridge
Sonny Rollins notableWork The Bridge
Gay Talese notableWork The Bridge