Sigmund Freud radically changed people’s perceptions of society. Sex and gender and their roles they played within society were at the forefront of the modernist movement. The movement was marked by the opposition to the traditional ways of viewing the world. Modernists encouraged experimentation and individualism. Poets reacted to this by experimenting with their writing by contrasting romanticism. They cared little for nature and believed that the world was not growing and aiding, instead was destroying the individual. Also, the horrors of World War I, with its accompanying atrocities and senselessness became the catalyst for the Modernist movement. Modernist authors felt betrayed by the war, believing the institutions in which they were
