Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Modernism - The American Literature
46
MODERNISM - THE AMERICAN LITERATURE
1901 - 1960
"art for art's sake"
- Clement Greenberg
Presented to: Ms. Trina Claire Ampalayo
Presented by: Joel D. Eumague Jr.
Modernism -
The Overview
About
Modernism
American modernist literature was a dominant trend in American literature between World War I and World War II. The modernist era highlighted innovation in the form and language of poetry and prose, as well as addressing numerous contemporary topics, such as race relations, gender and the human condition.
History
- A Major Literary Movement
- Started in Early 20th Century
- Influenced by Charles Darwin and Karl Marx Theories
- Psychoanalytic Theories
- Disillusionment of Victorian ideas, belief and their way of writing
- The Age of Machine
- The Age of Innovations
- The Age of Interrogations
- The Age of War
- Science and Arts really influenced the modern man
- The modern writers could no longer write in old manner
About Modern Poetry
Modern Poetry
- T.S Eliot was a dominant figure
- His Famous Poem 'The Waste Land'
- Totally against Victorianism and Romanticism
- The 20th century poets who were in revolt against Victorianism
- In 19th century poetry the main characteristics was preoccupation with a dream world
- Under the new conditions modern poets could not take dream habit seriously
- Which brought about the movements known as Imagism and Symbolism
Thomas Stearns Eliot
(1888- 1965)
William Butler Yeats
(1865 - 1939)
- Born in USA
- Chief representative and a dominant figure
- Great critic
- Classicist
- A social philospher
- Educated in Harvard University
- Greatest poem is The Waste Land
- The poet surveys the desolate scene of the world
- Other Poems
- The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
- Burnt Norton
- East Coker
- The Dry Salvages
- An Irish
- He was anti-rationalist
- Founder of Celtic Movement
- A symbolist
- Due to World War 1 wrote in realistic Direction
- His work 'The Wonderings of Oisin'
- The poet pleds with the elements powers a symbolism poem
- Other poems
- The Shadowy Waters
- The Winding Stair
- The Tower
Notable Poets of the Time
The Famous Poets
Of The Modern World
- One of the most notable Women Movement Writers of his time
- Used 'stream of consciousness'
- Impressed by Ulysses
- Gifted with poetic temperament
- Notable Novels 'The Voyage' -The meaning of life
- Jacob's Room - first serious experiment in the stream of consciousness
- The Years - Simpler form of Fiction
- Orlando - Liveliest, fantasy
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
Imagism & Symbolism
Imagism
- is a literary movement in early 20th century lasted for 10 years
- First revolt against the Victorian & Romantic Poetry
- The Imagists rejected the 19th century poetic form and language
- They use the common language
- They used exact words instead of decorative words
- Leaders of Imagists was Ezra Pound.
Movement
of Poetry
Symbolism
- first started on France
- Representing things means of symbols
- The symbolists found beauty in every detail of normal day by day life
- Leaders of Symbolists T.S Eliot ' The Waste Land'
Features of
Modern Poetry
Features
of Modern
Poetry
- Totally against the Victorian and Romantic Poetry
- The disappearance of religious faith
- Regular metre have been discarded
- No regular rhyming scheme
- Juxtaposition of ideas
- Use of free verse
- Use of irony
- Use of metaphors
- Satirical
- War
- Social Injustice
- Arts
- Human Rights
- Futurism
References
Resources
- Photos and other information used in this presentation are just for educational purposes only, no copyright infringement needed/
- Retrieved from Literature and Linguistic Hub
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_modernism
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- vectorstock.com
- google.org
All Rights Reserved 2020