WWYD? If you felt like life became too complicated, what would you most likely escape with: The Age of Reason Romanticism Realism Something new and different!

The Ladder of Abstraction What is it? How does it relate to our next unit?

The Ladder of Abstraction What is it? How does it relate to our next unit?

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Values Beliefs Emphases Writing Modernism Values Beliefs Emphases Writing

Modernism: Values Experimentation: in visual arts, literature, and music Often called avant-garde “Art for art’s sake” Anxiety about the future: WWI’s tragic failure Urbanization shrinks the world Three Musicians (1921) by Picasso

Beliefs: The Lost Generation A group of disillusioned writers Relocated in Europe Gertrude Stein: “You’re all a Lost Generation” Included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound

Emphases: Modernist Poetry Fragmentation of modern world emphasizes the lack of: Transition Resolution Explanation Exposition Poet e. e. cummings

Emphases: Modernist Poetry Free Verse Implied Themes Hard, clear language Experimental techniques Uncertainty necessitates reader interaction Imagination more reliable than reason Wright’s Guggenheim Museum

Writing Symbolist Poetry Imagist Poetry

Modernism: Symbolist Poetry the world of appearances is rearranged artists seek a different and more truthful version of reality. resembles the Romantic era Edgar Allen Poe was a forerunner of the Symbolist era

Modernism: Imagist Poetry Ezra Pound (1885-1972) leads movement of free verse rhythmic arrangement of words juxtaposition of images Influenced by Japanese haiku, short poems that evoke a subtle mood through the succession of images Pound’s urge to “make it new” becomes the rallying cry of modernism.

Spotlight technique: Juxtaposition Combination of images or details without explicit transition Plays with the contrast between selections

Reader response: Profound or modest? Pretentious or shallow? Poet William Carlos Williams