1. 1901 – Present A Time of Rapid Change

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

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

4. 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

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

6. 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. 1051 “Wirers” Siegfried Sassoon p. 1052 “Anthem for Doomed Youth” Wilfred Owen p. 1053 GEORGIAN POETS *rebelled against “self-consciously knowing air of Victorian poetry”

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

8. BRITISH POSTMODERN CULTURE

9. 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)

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