Problematically, modernity must annihilate itself the very moment it is actualized, as the moment it emerges, it becomes a part of the past. Modernist literature represents the paradox of modernity through themes of cycle and rejuvenation. Eliot's speaker in "The Waste Land" famously declares "these fragments I have shored against my ruins" line The speaker must reconstruct meaning by reassembling the pieces of history. Importantly, there is rebirth and rejuvenation in ruin, and modernist literature celebrates the endless cycle of destruction, as it ever gives rise to new forms and creations.
Modernist literature is also marked by themes of loss and exile. Modernism rejected conventional truths and figures of authority, and modernists moved away from religion. In modernist literature, man is assured that his own sense of morality trumps. But individualism results in feelings of isolation and loss.
It is no surprise that many critics consider Henry James the first modernist author. His conception of art reveals a man committed to an artistic vision that both expresses and attacks the spiritual emptiness of materialism and the pursuit of enrichment. However, Henry James did not think of his art in terms of historical mission or social critique. Instead, he considered that the highest expressions of art are those that exist beyond historical contingency. In this sense, the first American modernists were the descendants of H.
Their common relationship to James and to each other is their belief that they were at the margin of their culture. What made them different from such a culture was their strong resolution not to be influenced by its commercialism and its bourgeois consumerism.
Among these first modernists, we find such representative artists as Ezra Pound, T. For this latter, being an artist or a writer meant first and foremost standing at the margin of a country dedicated to business. In his book-length-essay entitled In the American Grain , Williams Carlos Williams tried to describe the alienated experience of the poet in an American society dominated by materialistic bourgeois ideals.
He also tried to describe the sense of sterility and isolation of individual existence in a materialistic society. This book describes an America alienated from its past and its monumental nature.
For Williams, past and nature are the sources of vitality and creative energy:. To me, it is because we fear to wake up that we play so well. Imagine stopping money-making.
Our whole conception of reality would have to be altered. The mission of the poet was therefore to renew the use of language and to adopt an original diction. As his long poem Paterson indicates, this original diction should reflect the vital energies of life, the opposite of the energies dedicated to economic production and consumption.
Unlike Williams, T. Eliot and Ezra Pound developed their mature literary vision in Europe. Still, their aesthetic and intellectual evolution reveals their deeply American concerns. In the history of modernism, Eliot and Pound figure as powerful catalysts, poets who brought about change and exerted significant influence over other literary figures.
The adoption of technology into the daily life of people in the western society, electricity, and telephone, automobile were all being used. Writers of this period tend to pursue more experimental and usually more highly individualistic forms of writing.
Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views: 1 there is no objective reality; 2 there is no scientific or historical truth objective truth ; 3 science and technology and even reason and logic are not vehicles of human progress but suspect instruments of established power; 4 reason and logic ….
Modernism is a cultural movement that includes the progressive art and architecture, music, literature and design. Modernism in literature An overwiew of early 20th century literary trends. It is a cultural trend. It is the movement in visual arts, music, literature and drama. Modernism describes things you do that are contemporary or current.
Modernism can describe thought, behavior, or values that reflect current times, but it can also be used to describe an art and literature movement of the 19th and 20th centuries that intentionally split from earlier conservative traditions.
Modernist photography celebrated the camera as an essentially mechanical tool. Nowadays, photography is considered an art form as valid as any other, and there are multiple museums and galleries exhibiting photographic work. Modern photography is a period in photography that marked the shift from traditional pictorialist photography to a more direct way of capturing photos, exploiting, and emphasizing the use of and nature of the camera instead of using it as a tool to capture images.
The seven basic elements of photography — line, shape, form, texture, pattern, color and space — all refer to the way you set up your photo. Not all Modernist poets followed the writers who were making revolutionary changes to the world of poetics. Marianne Moore, for example, wrote some form poetry, and Robert Frost once said that writing free verse was "like playing tennis without a net. By the s, a new generation of Postmodern poets came to the forefront.
The Modernist ideas of Imagism and the work of William Carlos Williams, for example, continue to have a great influence on writers today. Main Menu. Magazines 3. Evaluating your Sources 4. What is Modernism? They felt that the following rules should apply when writing poetry: Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective.
To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
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