Pylon Poets is a label for a group of 1930s British poets, especially W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Louis MacNeice, whose writing often reflected left-wing politics and the modern industrial world. Their poems frequently use images of trains, roads, factories, wires, and pylons to capture the energy and unease of modern life. The term is not a formal school so much as a convenient critical nickname.
Example
The railway hummed beneath the bridge,
steel pylons stitched the dusk together,
and lights from distant factories
shone like a warning on the rain.