What do you notice about this painting? What key details stand out to you?

What literary era does this painting represent? Why?

Modernism

Historical Parallels ● World War I and World War II ● Western culture ● Harlem Renaissance What sort of attitudes emanated from these historical movements?

Tenet 1: Imagination is necessary to break away from the traditional style ➢ More creative writing ➢ Brought more experimental style Shift-Traditional style Experimental writing

T.S Eliot “Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.” -Burnt Norton

Tenet 2: Individualism consisted of introspective ideas of self-reflection ➢ Psychology ➢ Introspection Shift- Concerned with society Concern with self-reflection

Robert Frost “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” -The Road Less Traveled

Tenet 3: Science became a new mode of expression ➢ Philosophy ➢ Stream of consciousness ➢ Physcology Shift: Religious/Spiritual Scientific

Dylan Thomas “ Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” -Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Tenet 4: Fragmented Language found in most literature, used to add breaks or stops ➢ Chaotic structure ➢ Breaks patterns Shift: Orderly sentence structure Fragmented structure

Thomas Eliot “ APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” -The Wasteland

Tenet 5: Modern Style was created to break away from the Victorian era and traditional styles ➢ Chaotic instability ➢ Faithlessness ➢ Confused sense of identity Shift: Traditional Style Experimental literary form

Ezra Pound “Make it new!” -Quote From Ezra Pound

Tenet 6: Urbanization changed the focus of literature to reflect reality ➢ Industrialization ➢ Response to changing world Shift: Ruralization Urbanization

F.Scott Fitzgerald “This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” -The Great Gatsby