The Movement Determines the Tone which Determines the Poem

In our last exam from English, from which I received 60 over 100, I followed the main principles of imagism and modernism in order to prove that such principles "determine the tone, which determines the poem." Since no approach can be considered as distinct from the principles of the movement it belongs, I thought, the tone of the poet is the product of such principles. For example, T.E. Hulme's "The Poet", which was one of the questions in the exam is a perfect example of how the principles of a movement determine the tone of the poet.

The poem depicts a poet leaning over a large smooth table and beginning to dream about an alternative world, where he takes a walk with trees, and talks with them in the woods. Definitely such a poet is nobody but a romantic. His basic excursion to another world of imagination, an alternative world, which seems as if more charming than the actual world. I consider such a poet "an escapist", who cannot grapple with the solid facts of the modern world in which the modern men must live. Such a poet gives nothing but dreams, but a modernist gives to his readers the facts of modern existence. In the poem, the solid facts of the modern existence are as solid as "a large and smooth table." Such a table is not poetic at all, that is for sure, but it cannot be denied. No matter how many "round globes and stone images,/Of gems, colors, hard and definite" he dreams, he has to learn that he has to come back to the world of solid facts. Therefore, the modernist-imagist T.E. Hulme is definitely sarcastic about such an outdated romantic. The poet's tone is ironical, too. Some of his readers may believe that the poet has a happy and joyful mood but, in fact, such a mood belongs to the poet in "The Poet", who is detested by the modernist poet.