modernism Flashcards
what was modernim ifluenced by
psychology
what does modernism help describe
Freudian “subconcious”
what is the Freudian “subconscious”
human sexuality
what caused a lot of the thoguhts of modernism
WWI (are people getting better)
what are imagism characteristics
anti-sentimental, concrete images/ details, the language of everyday speech, experimental/ avant-garde approaches
what were some experimental/ avant-garde approaches
Stream of consciousness, symbolism, free verse, conversational speech patterns, searching for a way to make sense of the new realities of the world
what is strea of consciousness
write what is going on in your brain, stream of thoughts
what is free verse
poetry without meter or rhyme
Father of imagism
-Deeper meanings
-To the point
-Teaches something deep
Ezra pound
Doctor who met ezra and becomae peot
William carlos
“luminous details”
Imagine isolates objects through the use of what ezra pound called “luminous details”
Friend of Pound
Traditional in meter, rhyme, etc.
Deceptiviey simple poetry
The modernist romantic
Robert Frost
Peot and painter
Wrote in lower case letters
Ecperianetal and playful use of language, grammar and punctuation,
Interest in poems appearance
-Poems looked like art
ee cummings
Experimental language
Stream of conscious
Ulysses
Portrait of an artist
-Shows thoughts going through head of a boy’s childhood
-Religious conversion in college
-Realizes he is an artist later on
-Words change throughout book (lanugage)
James joyce
use of stream of consiousness
Ulysess
William faulkner (Sond and th Fury)
Katherine anne porter (short shories)
One sotyr about a woman with alsimers
John Dos Passos (U.S.A)
Stories with intent of going inside brain
Understanding why people would fight in war
