Over the course of the depression that followed the stock market crash of October 1929, American poets on the left wrote an enormous amount of often passionate poetry addressing their social contexts. Revolutionary American poetry of the 1930s was inevitably written in the atmosphere of the modernist formal revolution. The Objectivists are thorough-going modernists, looking forward in both aesthetic and political terms. Carl Rakosi is an unabashedly lyrical poet, but with a propensity toward satire that often aims at social targets. As a movement and as individual poets, the Objectivists had been largely forgotten by the end of the 1930s. George Oppen and Rakosi had ceased writing, and Charles Reznikof had to some extent forgone poetry for prose writing. One index of the shift in Louis Zukofsky's concerns is the second half of A-9, written a decade after the first.