Modernism is a sweeping, wide range term covering a vast realm of works with the same values and beliefs during 1910 thru 1945. The time span of modernism was highly imprinted by a multitude of events, technology, and scientific advancements. It is best interpreted by the traditions it broke rather than a literal literary renaissance. Modernists were in search of truth behind the harsh and cruel existence they called reality. Responsible for part of these rebellious and dark mentalities were World War I, The Great Depression, and additionally The Dust Bowl. This innovative group was influenced by many spectrums, intellectuals such as Einstein and his theory of relativity and uncertainty, Freud and Jung’s emphasis on the subconscious, Sartre’s
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“Love can not fill the thickening lung with breath / Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone / Yet many a man is making friends with death” (Line 5-7). Additional illustrations would include [the Cambridge ladies who lived in furnished souls] by Cumming which promotes search for truth by questioning the thoughtless existence of people who do not think for themselves, only taking into consideration what translates on an exterior level, “perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy / scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D / …the Cambridge ladies do not care” (Line 9-11) These two poems are contrasting in the exploration of truth one examines individual authenticity and the other questions emotional …show more content…
Wing then shoves his hands into his pockets and bolts away from the boy as fast as his legs will allow. The young boy is perplexed and realizes, “There’s something wrong, but I don’t want to know what it is. His hands have something to do with his fear of me and everyone” (1645). This excerpt relates directly to the fear Wing feels of being misunderstood and disconnected from others, which ultimately results in loss, despair and alienation.
Blending fantasy with reality is another important feature found in modernism. “Death in the Woods” by Anderson is a fantastic example this integration. After the old woman has froze to death her body is being observed by passersby, “ She did not look old , lying there in that light, frozen and still…My body trembled with some strange mystical feeling…clinging to the frozen flesh, that made it look so white and lovely, so like marble
“Love can not fill the thickening lung with breath / Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone / Yet many a man is making friends with death” (Line 5-7). Additional illustrations would include [the Cambridge ladies who lived in furnished souls] by Cumming which promotes search for truth by questioning the thoughtless existence of people who do not think for themselves, only taking into consideration what translates on an exterior level, “perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy / scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D / …the Cambridge ladies do not care” (Line 9-11) These two poems are contrasting in the exploration of truth one examines individual authenticity and the other questions emotional …show more content…
Wing then shoves his hands into his pockets and bolts away from the boy as fast as his legs will allow. The young boy is perplexed and realizes, “There’s something wrong, but I don’t want to know what it is. His hands have something to do with his fear of me and everyone” (1645). This excerpt relates directly to the fear Wing feels of being misunderstood and disconnected from others, which ultimately results in loss, despair and alienation.
Blending fantasy with reality is another important feature found in modernism. “Death in the Woods” by Anderson is a fantastic example this integration. After the old woman has froze to death her body is being observed by passersby, “ She did not look old , lying there in that light, frozen and still…My body trembled with some strange mystical feeling…clinging to the frozen flesh, that made it look so white and lovely, so like marble