2130_American Lit Module 2 _WWI and What Remains

World War I and Its Aftermath

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World War I


Alan Seeger


Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.

—T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)

Alan Seeger and T. S. Eliot


April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers.

—T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)

Alan Seeger and T. S. Eliot


Ernest Hemingway


Ernest Hemingway


Ernest Hemingway


E. E. Cummings


Jessie Redmon Fauset


A reek of steam— the bath-house rang with cries.“Come across with the soap.”

“Like hell, what makes you think it’s yours?”

“Don’t turn off the water, that ain’t fairI’m all covered with soap.”

“Hurry up, get out of the way.”“Thank God you’re takin’ a bath.”

“He wants to surprise us.”

“Oh is that so, well anyway I don’t stink like you.”

“Air raid!”

John Allan Wyeth, Jr.


“We ran out into the square,naked and cold like souls on Judgment Day.Over us, white clouds blazoned on blue skies,and a green balloon on fire—we watched it shrinkinto flame and a fall of smoke. Around us, bruteguns belching puffs of shrapnel in the air,where one plane swooping like a bird of preyspat fire into a dangling parachute.”

John Allan Wyeth, Jr.


Gertrude Stein


“Soon we came to the battle-fields and the lines of trenches of both sides. To any one who did not see it as it was then it is impossible to imagine it. It was not terrifying it was strange. We were used to ruined houses and even ruined towns but this was different. It was a landscape. And it belonged to no country.”

Gertrude Stein

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