Modernism MovementModernism MovementOrtecia GuityAaliyah CarsonBri-Jae ScarbroughWinsinslow

What is the modernism What is the modernism movement 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.

Cubo-Futurism

Semi-Abstract

Surrealism

Techniques of modernismTechniques of modernismexperimentation, anti-realism, individualism intellectualverbal cleverness Juxtaposition, irony, comparisons, satire

Themes of modernismThemes of modernismThe 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 StevensWallace 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 worksNotable works

◦Harmonium (1930)◦Ideas of Order (1935)◦The Man with the Blue Guitar (1942)◦Collected Poems (1954)

The Snow Man The Snow Man by Wallace Stevensby Wallace Stevens

Snowman AnalysisSnowman Analysisoverview: man realizes that he must the snowman symbolizes the “mind of

winter”“mind of winter” is an extended

metaphor of a mind that holds nothingdiction and imagery cause a

gloomy/miserable tonerepetition of nothingtheme: the relation between

imagination and reality

T.S ElliotT.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)

Notable WorksNotable Works

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock— 1915

Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Four Quartets (1945)

THE HIPPOPOTAMUSTHE HIPPOPOTAMUSby: T.S. Eliot (1920)by: T.S. Eliot (1920)

Figurative LanguageFigurative Language

ToneBiblical allusionSymbolism

E.E CummingsE.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 WorksNotable Works

SpringAnyone Lived in a Pretty How

TownSnowA Pretty a DayI Carry Your Heart With Me

Anyone lived in a pretty how Anyone lived in a pretty how town  town   by E. E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings

Poetry AnalysisPoetry 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 DoolittleHilda 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 WorkNotable Work"Sea Rose""Garden""Mid-day""Hermes of the Ways""The Helmsman""Helen"

HelenHelenBy: Hilda DoolittleBy: Hilda Doolittle

Analysis of HelenAnalysis of HelenLiterary Devices Allusion Imagery Repetition Irony Symbolism Tone Compare and Contrast

Form End-stopped

Writing PromptsWriting Prompts1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Write a well organize essay in which you analyze the literary techniques the author uses to characterize winter.

Quiz QuestionsQuiz Questions1. Which of the following was not a key element of

modernist poetry?a. experimentationb. anti-realismc. realismd. individualism2. What ideas did the modernist movement borrow from

Romanticism?a. an urban settingb. willingness to break taboosc. artist-centered view and retreat into irrationalismd. stress on the cerebral3. What theme does Steven’s, “The Snowman” embody?a. the misery of winterb. the importance of a snowmanc. the relationship between imagination and realityd. speech of nature

Quiz QuestionsQuiz Questions1. What group of poets was Hilda Doolittle

apart of before Modernism? a. Harlem Renassaince b. Realistic c. Romanticism d. Imagist2. What was the tone of the poem “Helen” a. Depressed b. Happy c. Unforgiving d. Aposrtophe

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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