Poll results

A warm thank you to those who took the time to do my poll. I may do one from time to time mostly to gauge opinion on recent events in the world of poetry. For example, it would have been interesting to take a survey on Ron Silliman's decision a few years back to close the comments stream at his blog. Find below the results of my poll, beginning with a sampling of opinion on the poll topic:


(a) "Of those listed here that would probably be Apollinaire. He was there at the beginning of modernism. His ""Zone"" was a huge influence on everybody, as were ""Lundi Rue Christine"" and the Calligrammes ... as were his writings on the cubist painters.
It's interesting that this list does not consist of contemporaries, e.g. Zukofsky and Char came along after modernism was in full swing."

(b)"Walt Whitman - an avant-modernist, so to speak (tongue a little in cheekily), who leads pretty directly to
WC Williams - I suspect that of the early modernists he has had the most influence in North America. He's kind the ""free verse according to speech rhythms"" guy.
HD - the ""imagiste"" queen. Imagism has been incredibly influential on modernism (I should add, thru Pound, too)"

(c)"[Apollinaire's] calligrams paved the way for a new genre - visual poetry, first exemplified in concrete poetry - the perception of a poem as a visual form of poetic expression.
Concrete poetry established the idea of presenting a poem as a ""word-object"" - to be looked at as well as read; from that point on, words on a page were to be considered for their spatial as well as for their semantic function.This led to ""visual poetry"", a genre that integrates text and image on the page, which then led to ""kinetic text"" (my term), a time-based form of presenting a poem as moving text on a screen and, eventually, to film poems or ""videopoetry"" (my term) wherein text is ""juxtaposed with image and sound to produce a poetic experience"" (my definition) as well as the forms of ""e-poetry"" - generative texts for example - which require the user's interactivity to create the poems."

(d) "Ezra Pound, because he championed the movement away from the flowery language of Victorian poetry and its sometimes cumbersome and abstract."
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Which one literary figure listed below has, in your opinion, contributed the most towards creating a distinctively modern poetics?

Tristan Tzara	0	0%
Rainer Maria Rilke	2	20%
Guillaume Apollinaire	3	30%
Louis Zukofsky	1	10%
René Char	0	0%
Gertrude Stein	4	40%