1. 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!

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

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

6. Modernist
What do find more interesting, items on the

7. Values Beliefs Emphases Writing
Modernism
Values
Beliefs
Emphases
Writing

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. Writing
Symbolist Poetry
Imagist Poetry

13. 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

14. Modernism: Imagist Poetry
Ezra Pound ( ) 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.

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

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