Modernism Random Questions for Exam

Founded Green which village theater in NYC. father of modernistic drama. broadway wouldnt have happened without him.

Uncertanty, disjointedness, disillusionment, ambiguity. (many felt these after WWI)
Experimentation.
disillusioned to everything they believed in

1907-1917 rebellion against 19th cent poetry. demanded hard clear expression concrete images and everyday speech.

Early leader of movemnt.

Term was coined by Gertrude Stein. they saw little in civilization writers between WWI and WW2. a whole generation of Americans died during war. ppl also are lost spiritualy and intelectualy. not sure what will happen. loads of uncertainty.

Hemingway- writes about adventure (wrote In Another Country)
Stienbeck- wrote about lowerclass. (wrote Of Mice and Men and Flight)
Fitzgerald- writes about upper class (wrote Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams)

They were against the war. they leave america and go to Europe (some come back).
Sherwood Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Eliot.
Write in opposition to American landscape. pessimistic.

By TS Eliot. most important poem of the century

Offshoot of imagism. random objects in assosation to make meaning. it's an excerpt from a larger work

William Carlos Williams

Its near manhattan. African americans starting their own renisanse there. literature, music, and art. Langston Hughs is the father of the HR. Other writers were Cullen, McKay, Toomer, and Bontemps

Breaks rules of grammer. no capitalization or puncuation but sometimes puts puncuation in random (wrong) places.

Birches
mending wall
the death of the hired man
out, out
fire and ice
nothing gold can stay
stopping by woods on a snowy evening
aquainted with the night

Philosophic movement that said God is dead all these people died furing WWI and WWII and Holocaust and in SOviet Union- so where could God be?

seen in Jilting of Granny Weatheral by Porter

Pound

Hurston