characteristics of modernism
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Characteristics of Modernism►Written between the
two World Wars, 1918-1939
►Experimental, challenging and difficult
►Searched for new forms of poetic expression abandoned standard
line length, rhymes and stanza forms
wrote in more colloquial (conversational) verse
►Used symbolism—all external objects are symbols of a deeper reality
►Was often concerned with relationships
►Often began arbitrarily
Characteristics & Key Figures► Industrialization►The City►War► Language and the
Arts► Fragmentation,
despair The death of God
►Mythology, anthropology
► Innovation►Time (future, past)►Aesthetics ►A Movement of
Movements►Key Figures
(Darwin) Marx Freud Nietzche Eliot, Joyce, Pound
Leading Poets
► Edwin Arlington Robinson► Robert Frost► Carl Sandburg► William Carlos Williams► Ezra Pound► T. S. Eliot► Claude McKay► E. E. Cummings
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