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- Amanda Gorman. “We've seen a force that would shatter our nation. rather than share it. Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded.
- Richard Blanco. “One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes. tired from work: some days guessing at the weather. who knew how to give, or forgiving a father.
- Rupi Kaur. “you tell me to quiet down cause. my opinions make me less beautiful. but i was not made with a fire in my belly. so i could be put out…” (Kaur, “My Mother’s Soul”)
- Gregory Pardlo. “I was born waist-deep stubborn in the water crying. ain’t I a woman and a brother I was born. to this hall of mirrors, this horror story I was.
- The Victorian Period: 1837-1901
- Modern Literature: 1901-1960
- Postmodernist Literature: 1970s-1990s
- What Is The Difference Between Modern and Postmodern Literature?
- What Is Modernist Literature like?
- Voice in Modern Literature
- Modernist Poetry
- Examples of Modernism in Literature
- A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man by James Joyce
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Victorian-era literature describes works published between 1837 and 1901. Often, authors wrote books in installments and published them in periodicals. They strove for a realistic, natural style and sought to tell a captivating story. Authors like Charles Dickens featured dramatic characters mostly to move the plot forward rather than explore the i...
World War I, the Spanish flu, and the Great Depression prompted the rise of modernist literature. The decline of farming and small family businesses led to people leaving home for work in factories and cities, a theme often found in American literature written during this time. Societal changes and industrialization meant many families grew apart. ...
Following the modernist period and World War II, postmodernistauthors skewed further away from the style of the Victorian and modernist periods. They employed concepts like metafiction and play to explore the idea that there’s no one way to explain the human experience. Postmodernist authors like Kurt Vonnegut didn’t delve into a deep analysis of h...
Modernism and postmodernism describe two dinstinct literary movements of the early to mid and mid to late 20th century periods respectively. Modernism focuses on individual experience, fragmentation, and experimentation, while postmodernism rejects objective truth and certainty. It employs irony, parody and satire. Famous modernist authors include ...
Classic and Victorian literature moved stories forward using easy-to-follow plotlines and dialogue. On first read, anyone can follow the plotline of books like Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyreread. Modernist literature is often harder to follow. Modernist books like Mrs Dalloway or poems like The Second Coming requires interpretation and analysis. ...
Modern literature is emotional and raw and exposes brutal truths about characters and humanity. Sometimes, authors experimented with non-linear literary timelines, telling readers one part of the story before narrating a past event. This conceit gave rise to the concept of the unreliable narrator. Individualism formed a vital part of the modern lit...
Before the modern era, poets mostly followed a specific rhyme scheme or style. Modernist poets changed all that. They disregarded rules regarding the number of syllables and rhymes at the end of each line. They also changed conventions relating to structure and length. Instead, free verse became king. Poets of the day, like Ezra Pound, Wallace Stev...
Here, we’ll look at some of the most famous examples of modernist literature from American literature and English literature.
Joyce expertly uses imagery to paint a picture for readers throughout his novel. The story is about the Irish author’s life (with fictional details added). Literary critics have long heralded the book for its detailed, vivid descriptions that make readers feel like they’re growing up with the protagonist. The book goes through many hardships Joyce ...
In this novel about a group of ex-pats living in Paris, Hemingway perfectly portrays the stream of consciousness associated with modernism. His meandering passages take the reader through his characters’ thoughts, making them feel like they’re walking down post-World War I European streets, wandering through the Parisian nightlife and the excitemen...
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Modernism. This free, not-for-credit online course, the sixth installment in the multi-part HarvardX Poetry in America series, explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems. While “Modernism” is notoriously difficult to define, the movement spanned the decades from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, and the poetry of this period ...
An incisive, unified account of modern poetry in the Western tradition, arguing that the emergence of the lyric as a dominant verse style is emblematic of the age of the individual.Between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, poetry in the West was transformed. The now-common idea that poetry mostly corresponds with the lyric in the modern sense—a genre in ...
From Ten Songs. The New Romanticism started thanks to the New Apocalypse Poets. They were a group of British poets, mostly born after the World War, who eventually elected DH Lawrence as their poetic forefather. They considered him the singer of the great elemental forces of nature as opposed to mechanical things.
Were life ‘ever to be ordered within the perfect state’, Nietzsche prophesied, ‘there would no longer exist in the present any motive whatever for poetry and fiction’. 5. This book is about modernism as the art of an imperfect or fallen world, and modernity as a world in which art is imperfect or fallen. Most of all, this book is about ...
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry / Peter Howarth. p. cm. – (Cambridge introductions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-521-76447-6 (hardback) – ISBN 978-0-521-14785-9 (paperback) 1. Poetry, Modern – 20th century – History and criticism. 2. Modernism (Literature) I. Title. II.
