1901 – Present A Time of Rapid Change. Edward VII Transformation 1910 – George V 1914 – 1918 World War I 1939 – 1945 World War II 1901 – 1910 *Victorian.

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1901 – Present A Time of Rapid Change

Edward VII Transformation 1910 – George V 1914 – 1918 World War I 1939 – 1945 World War II 1901 – 1910 *Victorian Influence

THE END OF AN EMPIRE 1922 – Irish Free State Independence World War II Aftermath Iron Curtain

Modernism and Poetry Imagist - Symbolist Movement *stresses use of precise visual images, plain/concise language *willingness to experiment with new forms *Symbolists: T.S. Eliot “Preludes” p. 982 “Journey of the Magi” p. 984 William Butler Yeats “When You Are Old” p. 966 “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” p. 968

Symbolists - Look For: Transcendence Sensual feelings and language Deep symbols Dream or dream state – gives human beings opportunity to explore relationship between states

British Tank, Western Front in France Tanks kept in touch with the Infantry by carrier pigeons which were released and carried messages back. WAR POETS “The Soldier” Rupert Brooke p “Wirers” Siegfried Sassoon p “Anthem for Doomed Youth” Wilfred Owen p GEORGIAN POETS *rebelled against “self-consciously knowing air of Victorian poetry”

Allusions Reduce human experience to fragments world from as many points of view as the same time How individual relates to environment Sometimes focus on machine or inanimate object to present salient image Modernists - Look For:

BRITISH POSTMODERN CULTURE

Postmodernist Period *1965 – Present Look For: Parody, irony – can set tone Allusions (both to pop culture and classical learning) Binary Concepts (ie hot/cold, black/white)

ThePoetryProject **Get Excited People**