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Modernism 1900s

Modernism 1900s. Skyler Johnson Emma Croasdale Olivia Funderburk.

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Modernism 1900s

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  1. Modernism 1900s Skyler Johnson Emma Croasdale Olivia Funderburk

  2. “The English Novelist Virginia Woolf Declared That Human Nature Underwent A Fundamental Change “On Or About December 1910.” The Statement Testifies To The Modern Writer’s Fervent Desire To Break With The Past, Rejecting Literary Traditions That Seemed Outmoded And Diction That Seemed Too Genteel To Suit An Era Of Technological Breakthroughs And Global Violence.” –Edsitement Review Of “The Modernist Revolution: Make It New.”

  3. INFLUENCES & OUTCOMES • WWI • WWII • Technological Break Through • Rejection Of The Past- Change • Inspiration: Chinese Poetry & Ironic Poetry Of 19th Century • Philosophy And Psychoanalysis • Rejected Literary Traditions • Profound Dillusion Of Civiization • Worldly New Ideas And Movements

  4. MODERNISM CONTINUED.. • Experimentation And AvantGarde • New Ideas, Methods, And Styles. • Stream Of Consiousness • Capture The Flow Of The Character’s Consciousness • Flowing Images And Ideas

  5. T.S. ELIOT • 1888-1965 • Popular Writer. • Expressed Thoughts And Ideas. • For Example: “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock” • Dedicated to friend in battle • Leader of movement-poetry • The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). • Inspired by Jules Laforgue’s writing. • Ironic elegance, psychological mance

  6. THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK “Do I Dare Disturb The Universe? In A Minute There Is Time For Decisions And Revisions Which A Minute Will Reverse. For I Have Known Them All Already, Know Them All:- Have Known The Evenings, Mornings, Afternoons, I Have Measured Out My Life With Coffee Spoons; I Know The Voices Dying With A Dying Fall Beneath The Music From A Farther Room. So How Should I Presume?” -T.S. Eliot

  7. REFERNCE S • Answers Corporation . "Stream of consciousness." Answers.com. 2010. 2010. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://www.answers.com/topic/stream-of-consciousness>. • "A Brief Guide to Modernism." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, 1997. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5664>. • "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Study Guide. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/Prufrock.html>. • Bush, Ronald . "T.S. Eliot's Life and Career." Modern American Poetry. John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 1999. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm>. • "Introduction to Modernist Poetry." EDSITEment. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=615>. • Lambert, Tim . "Life in the 20th Century." Local Histories. 2009. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://www.localhistories.org/20thcent.html>.

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