What is the modernism movement ?
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Ortecia Guity Aaliyah Carson Bri-Jae Scarbrough Winsinslow What is the modernism movement ? Modernism is characterized as a revolutionary force In science Einstein was reassessing time, space, and our relationship to these concepts In global politics two world wars was bracketed decades of intense technological advances in the mass killing of soldiers and civilians In visual arts surrealism, futurism, abstraction, and cubism overthrew most accepted traditional ideas about pictorial representation. Techniques of modernism experimentation, anti-realism , individualism intellectual verbal cleverness Juxtaposition, irony, comparisons, satire Themes of modernism The breaking down of social norms, rejection of standard social ideas ,traditional thoughts and expectations, objection to religion anger towards the effects of the world wars the rejection of the truth rejection of history , social systems sense of loneliness Reject Romanticism and Victorian Literature Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) attended Harvard University as an undergrad from 1879 to 1900 due to shortages of family funds he had to withdraw from the university once out of Harvard he worked as a journalist for the New York Evening Post his father counseled him to study law so he graduated from New York School of Law in 1904 and practiced law in New York city until 1916 moved to Connecticut where he became vice president of a health insurance company Notable works Harmonium (1930) Ideas of Order (1935) The Man with the Blue Guitar (1942) Collected Poems (1954) The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens Snowman Analysis overview: man realizes that he must the snowman symbolizes the “mind of winter” “mind of winter” is an extended metaphor of a mind that holds nothing diction and imagery cause a gloomy/miserable tone repetition of nothing theme: the relation between imagination and reality T.S Elliot born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright and literary critic He won the Nobel Prize in 1948. His first masterpiece was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Purfrock," a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Gerontion The Waste Land The Hollow Men Ash Wednesday Four Quartets THE HIPPOPOTAMUS by: T.S. Eliot (1920)Figurative Language Tone Biblical allusion Symbolism E.E Cummings American poet, painter, essayist , author, and playwright Produced 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays Also produced numerous drawings and paintings (an artist) Wife and daughter (the effect of an affair) Born on October 14, 1894 Cambridge, Massachusetts Died of Hemorrhage at age 67 Religion: Unitarian Notable Works Anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings Poetry Analysis Notes Anyone is a generalized term for joyous townspeople No one is the woman referred to in the poem, so… anyone is in love with no one Overall message: mankind is selfish and only cares for the living (disregards the dead) Literary Devices Metaphors Symbolism Couplet (rhyme used in two consecutive lines) Repitition Form Quatrain (stanza of four lines) Hilda Doolittle Born: September 10, 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania An American poet, she attended University of Pennsylvania Known for her association with the early imagist movement. Work later developed into a more female centric version of modernism Married once, but had a number of heterosexual and lesbian affairs. She had an interest in Greek literature and her poetry often borrowed from Greek mythology Notable Work "Sea Rose" "Garden" "Mid-day" "Hermes of the Ways" "The Helmsman" "Helen" Helen By: Hilda DoolittleAnalysis of Helen Literary Devices Allusion Imagery Repetition Irony Symbolism Tone Compare and Contrast Form End-stopped Writing Prompts Wallace Stevens constantly implanted aesthetic philosophy, dealing with the nature of beauty and art, in his poetry. In the following poems he discusses the conditions of winter. Read both poems carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two of them and analyze the relation between them. The following poem is taken from Harmonium, a collection of poems written by the American poet Wallace Stevens. Read the poem carefully. Then write a well organized essay in which you analyze how he communicates his opinion about the power of imagination. Write a well organize essay in which you analyze the literary techniques the author uses to characterize winter. 1. Which of the following was not a key element of modernist poetry? experimentation anti-realism realism individualism 2. What ideas did the modernist movement borrow from Romanticism? an urban setting willingness to break taboos artist-centered view and retreat into irrationalism stress on the cerebral 3. What theme does Steven’s, “The Snowman” embody? the misery of winter the importance of a snowman the relationship between imagination and reality speech of nature Quiz Questions 1. What group of poets was Hilda Doolittle apart of before Modernism? a. Harlem Renassaince b. Realistic c. Romanticism d. Imagist What was the tone of the poem “Helen” a. Depressed b. Happy c. Unforgiving d. Aposrtophe Resources http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-is-modernism http://www.poemhunter.com/hilda-doolittle/ http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/hd.htm http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings http://www.internal.org/e_e_cummings http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wallace-stevens http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/bio.htm http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm Share with your friends:
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