1. Ortecia Guity Aaliyah Carson Bri-Jae Scarbrough Winsinslow
Modernism Movement
Ortecia Guity
Aaliyah Carson
Bri-Jae Scarbrough
Winsinslow

2. What is the modernism movement ?
Modernism is characterized as a revolutionary force
In science Einstein was reassessing time, space, and our relationship to these concepts
In global politics two world wars was bracketed decades of intense technological advances in the mass killing of soldiers and civilians
In visual arts surrealism, futurism, abstraction, and cubism overthrew most accepted traditional ideas about pictorial representation.
Surrealism
Cubo-Futurism
Semi-Abstract

3. Techniques of modernism
experimentation,
anti-realism,
individualism
intellectual
verbal cleverness
Juxtaposition,
irony, comparisons,
satire

4. Themes of modernism The breaking down of social norms,
rejection of standard social ideas ,traditional thoughts and expectations,
objection to religion
anger towards the effects of the world wars
the rejection of the truth
rejection of history,
social systems
sense of loneliness
Reject Romanticism and Victorian Literature

5. Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
attended Harvard University as an undergrad from 1879 to 1900
due to shortages of family funds he had to withdraw from the university
once out of Harvard he worked as a journalist for the New York Evening Post
his father counseled him to study law so he graduated from New York School of Law in and practiced law in New York city until 1916
moved to Connecticut where he became vice president of a health insurance company

6. Notable works Harmonium (1930) Ideas of Order (1935)
The Man with the Blue Guitar (1942)
Collected Poems (1954)

7. The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
To regard the frost and the boughs
In the sound of a few leaves,
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Of the January sun; and not to think

8. Snowman Analysis overview: man realizes that he must
the snowman symbolizes the “mind of winter”
“mind of winter” is an extended metaphor of a mind that holds nothing
diction and imagery cause a gloomy/miserable tone
repetition of nothing
theme: the relation between imagination and reality

9. T.S Elliot
born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England
T.S. Eliot was an American- English poet, playwright and literary critic
He won the Nobel Prize in
His first masterpiece was "The Love Song of J. Alfred Purfrock,"
a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets(1943)

10. Notable Works The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock— 1915
Gerontion (1920),
The Waste Land (1922),
The Hollow Men (1925),
Ash Wednesday (1930),
Four Quartets (1945)

11. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS by: T.S. Eliot (1920)
The broad-backed hippopotamus
But fruits of pomegranate and peach
And quiring angels round him sing
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Refresh the Church from over sea.
The praise of God, in loud hosannas.
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.
At mating time the hippo's voice
Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
Flesh-and-blood is weak and frail,
Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd,
Susceptible to nervous shock;
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
While the True Church can never fail
But every week we hear rejoice
Among the saints he shall be seen
The Church, at being one with God.
For it is based upon a rock.
Performing on a harp of gold.
The hippo's feeble steps may err
The hippopotamus's day
In compassing material ends,
He shall be washed as white as snow,
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
While the True Church need never stir
By all the martyr'd virgins kist,
God works in a mysterious way--
To gather in its dividends.
While the True Church remains below
The Church can sleep and feed at once.
Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.
The 'potamus can never reach
I saw the 'potamus take wing
The mango on the mango-tree;
Ascending from the damp savannas,

12. Figurative Language
Tone
Biblical allusion
Symbolism

13. E.E Cummings American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
Produced 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays
Also produced numerous drawings and paintings (an artist)
Wife and daughter (the effect of an affair)
Born on October 14, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died of Hemorrhage at age 67
Religion: Unitarian

14. Notable Works Spring Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town Snow
A Pretty a Day
I Carry Your Heart With Me

15. Anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his joy she cried his grief bird by snow and stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then)they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and no one stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes. Women and men(both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came

16. Poetry Analysis
Notes
Anyone is a generalized term for joyous townspeople
No one is the woman referred to in the poem, so… anyone is in love with no one
Overall message: mankind is selfish and only cares for the living (disregards the dead)
Literary Devices
Metaphors
Symbolism
Couplet (rhyme used in two consecutive lines)
Repitition
Form
Quatrain (stanza of four lines)

17. Hilda Doolittle Born: September 10, 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
An American poet, she attended University of Pennsylvania
Known for her association with the early imagist movement.
Work later developed into a more female centric version of modernism
Married once, but had a number of heterosexual and lesbian affairs.
She had an interest in Greek literature and her poetry often borrowed from Greek mythology

18. Notable Work "Sea Rose" "Garden" "Mid-day" "Hermes of the Ways"
"The Helmsman"
"Helen"

19. Helen By: Hilda Doolittle
Helen  All Greece hates  the still eyes in the white face,  the lustre as of olives  where she stands,  and the white hands.  All Greece reviles  the wan face when she smiles,  hating it deeper still  when it grows wan and white,  remembering past enchantments  and past ills.  Greece sees, unmoved,  God's daughter, born of love,  the beauty of cool feet  and slenderest knees,  could love indeed the maid,  only if she were laid,  white ash amid funereal cypresses.  Hilda Doolittle 

20. Analysis of Helen Literary Devices Allusion Imagery Repetition Irony
Symbolism
Tone
Compare and Contrast
Form
End-stopped

21. Writing Prompts
Wallace Stevens constantly implanted aesthetic philosophy, dealing with the nature of beauty and art, in his poetry. In the following poems he discusses the conditions of winter. Read both poems carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two of them and analyze the relation between them.
The following poem is taken from Harmonium, a collection of poems written by the American poet Wallace Stevens. Read the poem carefully. Then write a well organized essay in which you analyze how he communicates his opinion about the power of imagination.
Write a well organize essay in which you analyze the literary techniques the author uses to characterize winter.

22. Quiz Questions
1. Which of the following was not a key element of modernist poetry?
experimentation
anti-realism
realism
individualism
2. What ideas did the modernist movement borrow from Romanticism?
an urban setting
willingness to break taboos
artist-centered view and retreat into irrationalism
stress on the cerebral
3. What theme does Steven’s, “The Snowman” embody?
the misery of winter
the importance of a snowman
the relationship between imagination and reality
speech of nature

23. Quiz Questions
1. What group of poets was Hilda Doolittle apart of before Modernism?
a. Harlem Renassaince
b. Realistic
c. Romanticism
d. Imagist
What was the tone of the poem “Helen”
a. Depressed
b. Happy
c. Unforgiving
d. Aposrtophe

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