Mina Loy

Mina Loy's poetry is certainly a piece of modernism.  I enjoyed her poetry because although it was somewhat light, unlike T.S. Eliot, it was also very powerful with meaning.  Sort of had the best of both worlds.  In her poem, "Branscusi's Golden Bird" she eclectically describes a sculpture by Branscusi.  While she is describing something, her poetry still doesn't quite fit in with imaginism.  Her poetry uses maybe harsher language than would be described in an imaginist's poems.  Particularly in lines 9 and 10, where she uses the word "naked" to describe the sculpture.  The word "naked" is a very raw word that, in my opinion strikes out to the reader.  Modern poets definitely preferred vocabulary that was taboo or different than the diction used in previous literature.  I enjoyed these poems, particulary because they were easy to read and understand but still different in the sense of being modern.