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Modernism 1900s

“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.”

INFLUENCES & OUTCOMES WWI WWII Technological Break Through Rejection Of The Past- Change Inspiration: Chinese Poetry &

Ironic Poetry Of 19th 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

MODERNISM CONTINUED..

1888-1965 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

T.S. ELIOT

“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

THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK

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