chapter 8, the twentieth century Flashcards
son of queen victoria
edward VII
three -isms
imageism, surrealism, and existentialism
the use of precise, concrete images; free verse; and suggestion rather than complete statement
imagism
an attempt to portray or interpret the workings of the unconscious mind as manifested in dreams
surrealism
auden summed up the literary view of the age with his volume of poems published in 1947 entitled:
the age of anxiety
three leading british poets of the twentieth century
yeats, eliot, auden
poets that had a love for nature and wordsworth
georgians
irony of fame and glory
to an athlete dying young
who wrote adams curse
yeats
describe a rough beast slouching towards bethlehem
the second coming
“an age man is but a paltry thing”
sailing to byzantium”
“shoulder high we bring you home…”
to an athlete dying young
has been called the most traditional yet modern, influential yet influenced poet of his time
T.S eliot
attempts to express the weakness of modern men who can no longer think, speak, act, or imagine
the hollow man
who wrote the unknown citizen
W. H. auden
comments on the life of the average modern man
the unknown citizen
who wrote In my craft or sullen art and Do not go gentle into that good night
dylan thomas
“rage rage against the dying of the light”
do not go gentle into that good night
describing how one should approach death
do not go gentle into that good night
wrote hidden years at nazareth
campbell morgan
my utmost for his highest was written by
oswald chambers
if and no scar was written by
amy carmichael
three authors who kept God in their modern fiction stories
chesterson, tolkien, lewis
the first great writer of science fiction
H. G. wells
