pylon
pylon a monumental gateway to an ancient Egyptian temple formed by two truncated pyramidal towers.
In the early 20th century, the term was extended to cover a tall tower-like structure used for carrying electricity cables high above the ground; the word may be used (as in Pylon Poets) to designate those poets of the 1930s (chiefly W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender) who used industrial scenes and imagery as themes of their poetry, after Spender's poem The Pylons (1933).
The word comes (in the early 19th century) from Greek pulōn, from pulē ‘gate’.
In the early 20th century, the term was extended to cover a tall tower-like structure used for carrying electricity cables high above the ground; the word may be used (as in Pylon Poets) to designate those poets of the 1930s (chiefly W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender) who used industrial scenes and imagery as themes of their poetry, after Spender's poem The Pylons (1933).
The word comes (in the early 19th century) from Greek pulōn, from pulē ‘gate’.
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