John Betjeman and Modernism. An Analysis

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 100, language: English, abstract: This research is about the English poet John Betjeman and the Modernism movement. It discusses the movement in the second chapter and its features both as a general movement and as a literary movement. It also exhibits examples of the great modernist writers and poets of that time. Chapter three deals with one of the greatest British modernist poet, Sir John Betjeman. It discusses his life and the important things that affected him and his poetry and then shifts to his unique literary style of writing poetry and prose. It exhibits pieces of the poet’s work and analyzes them adequately and shows how the poet was influenced and inspired by certain people and factors. In chapter four, we take one of his poems as an example to analyze Diary of a Church mouse. We, then, critically analyze the poem showing Betjeman’s religious point of view via a mouse in a church. Finally, the conclusion which contains more information about the modernism movement, the poet John Betjeman and his literary form.