Jazz Age Writing: The Lost Generation
Following the destruction of the Great War, those that fought had a fallout with common morals, and values that modern society held dear. They stressed the importance of living large, working minimally, and drinking often. Moreover, the Lost Generation rejected he ideals of organized religion - feeling that they had been abandoned on the battlefields, and seeing the total destruction and atrocious actions that man can sling upon each other. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Eliot are the major voices from the Lost Generation, based on the way they changed literature, the beauty of their works, and the way that they lived their lives. One of the more notable names that arose during the Jazz Age was Ernest Hemingway. …show more content…
As the Jazz Age roared on, Zelda’s mental condition continued to diminish, giving F. Scott Fitzgerald no choice but to put her in an asylum. When this happened, Fitzgerald turned to drinking, and started to put on a lot of weight. His writing, though, continued to progress. There was a certain rhythm to his writing, and he seemed to find a way to fuse poetry into prose. The last line from The Great Gatsby may be one of the best examples of this, saying: “So we beat on, backs against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” To this day, the Lost Generation have continued to influence young writers. More than this, though, the Lost Generation teaches the modern world of suffering from lost love, and the trials of war. Hemingway, Eliot, and Fitzgerald In some sense, their works help to give us their experiences without us actually bearing their plagues. And like Gatsby - like every person to ever live - we take these writer’s haunted words and continue to beat on, our backs ceaselessly into the past taking with us all whom we’ve known and
Following the destruction of the Great War, those that fought had a fallout with common morals, and values that modern society held dear. They stressed the importance of living large, working minimally, and drinking often. Moreover, the Lost Generation rejected he ideals of organized religion - feeling that they had been abandoned on the battlefields, and seeing the total destruction and atrocious actions that man can sling upon each other. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Eliot are the major voices from the Lost Generation, based on the way they changed literature, the beauty of their works, and the way that they lived their lives. One of the more notable names that arose during the Jazz Age was Ernest Hemingway. …show more content…
As the Jazz Age roared on, Zelda’s mental condition continued to diminish, giving F. Scott Fitzgerald no choice but to put her in an asylum. When this happened, Fitzgerald turned to drinking, and started to put on a lot of weight. His writing, though, continued to progress. There was a certain rhythm to his writing, and he seemed to find a way to fuse poetry into prose. The last line from The Great Gatsby may be one of the best examples of this, saying: “So we beat on, backs against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” To this day, the Lost Generation have continued to influence young writers. More than this, though, the Lost Generation teaches the modern world of suffering from lost love, and the trials of war. Hemingway, Eliot, and Fitzgerald In some sense, their works help to give us their experiences without us actually bearing their plagues. And like Gatsby - like every person to ever live - we take these writer’s haunted words and continue to beat on, our backs ceaselessly into the past taking with us all whom we’ve known and