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“The English Novelist Virginia Woolf Declared That Human Nature Underwent A Fundamental Change “On Or About December 1910.” The Statement Testifies To The Modern Writer’s Fervent Desire To Break With The Past, Rejecting Literary Traditions That Seemed Outmoded And Diction That Seemed Too Genteel To Suit An Era Of Technological Breakthroughs And Global Violence.” – Edsitement Review Of “The Modernist Revolution: Make It New.”
WWI WWII Technological Break Through Rejection Of The Past- Change Inspiration: Chinese Poetry & Ironic Poetry Of 19 th Century Philosophy And Psychoanalysis Rejected Literary Traditions Profound Dillusion Of Civiization Worldly New Ideas And Movements
Experimentation And Avant Garde New Ideas, Methods, And Styles. Stream Of Consiousness Capture The Flow Of The Character’s Consciousness Flowing Images And Ideas
Popular Writer. Expressed Thoughts And Ideas. For Example: “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock” Dedicated to friend in battle Leader of movement-poetry The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Inspired by Jules Laforgue’s writing. Ironic elegance, psychological mance
“Do I Dare Disturb The Universe? In A Minute There Is Time For Decisions And Revisions Which A Minute Will Reverse. For I Have Known Them All Already, Know Them All:- Have Known The Evenings, Mornings, Afternoons, I Have Measured Out My Life With Coffee Spoons; I Know The Voices Dying With A Dying Fall Beneath The Music From A Farther Room. So How Should I Presume?” -T.S. Eliot
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