ambitious long poem The Bridge

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Ambitious long poem The Bridge is Hart Crane’s modernist epic that reimagines American history and experience through the symbolic central image of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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instanceOf epic poem
long poem
modernist poem
aimedTo create affirmative modern epic of America
author Hart Crane
centralSymbol Brooklyn Bridge
containsSection Atlantis
Ave Maria
Cape Hatteras
Cutty Sark
“Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge”
surface form: Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge

Quaker Hill
The Tunnel
Three Songs
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception mixed on initial publication
dedicatedTo Hart Crane’s mother
form lyric sequence
genre American epic
hasTheme American identity
modernity
myth and history
reconciliation of past and present
spiritual quest
urban life
influencedBy The Waste Land
surface form: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Walt Whitman
inspiredBy Brooklyn Bridge
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
meter variable meter
narrativeMode lyric and visionary
notableFor ambitious scope
central architectural symbol as organizing device
mythic reimagining of American history
periodOfComposition late 1920s
publicationYear 1930
publisher Black Sun Press
responseTo The Waste Land
setting New York City
structure sequence of interlinked poems
style complex symbolism
dense imagery
innovative syntax
subjectMatter American experience
American history
symbolizes modern American civilization
spiritual transcendence
technological progress

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Hart Crane knownFor ambitious long poem The Bridge