Modernist literature

American poet/lawyer. His works were part of the new writing movement known as the Modernist. His most popular work, Spoon River Anthology, gained a lot of support as well as criticism from the general public and other writers. His new and untraditional way of writing caused more conservatives to become angered by his writing do to the scandalous ideas. Masters is a major American writer that left a lasting impact on literature. Edgar Lee Masters was born on August 23rd, 1868 in Garnett, Kansas…

named Carlos Drummond De Andrade. He’s considered to be one of the most accomplished and influential poets of the mid-20th-century in Brazil (Drummond). He’s connected to many readers all around the world and quickly became one of the best known modernists in the country of Brazil. Drummond’s realistic themes reflected his concern with modern human struggles for freedom and dignity (Drummond). Drummond became a well known poet through his daily struggles in his life living in Brazil. It all…

How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave in their situation. Modernists, on the other hand, stuck to psychological realism as closely as possible. The characters that they created were true to their social…

Edward Estlin Cummings: The Master of Art Genealogy and geography, along with numerous other circumstances molded Edward Estlin Cummings into an innovative poet and painter of the modernism movement. The inescapable presence of Harvard, and the desire to live up to his father's legacy as a Unitarian minister, Harvard Graduate , and Professor, played a major role in Cummings’ rebellious attitude towards his father’s traditional world. Cumming’s desire to find his own voice and reject societal…

Realism Edna, from The Awakening, is an example of sexuality being treated directly in Realist literature. In past times sexuality would be only alluded to or unused altogether as a way to show the purity of the women. Edna has three men that are potential sexual partners; one she is married to, one she loves, and one she has no more than a shallow interest in. After the one she has little interest in, kisses the back of her hand and leaves “She felt somewhat like a woman who in a moment…

The context in which a piece of literature is created will affect which values and attitudes are conveyed, however, despite being represented differently, some of these values and attitudes transcend through time and permeate contexts in order to reflect universal struggles which affect society. Through a comparative study of a pair of texts, the responder is able to analyse literary context as well as compare and contrast themes and ideas presented in order to gain an understanding of these…

The short extract from ‘Smoke, lilies and Jade’ by Richard Bruce Nugent is from a Bildungsroman play foretelling the plight of Alex - a 19-year-old, black, male facing internal conflicts and confusion in regards to his sexuality. Therefore, taking this context into consideration, the extract naturally issues an underlying, thematic patterning of fragmentation, uncertainty, and tension. From a close reading, these themes spill out through the content, the form, as well as the diction. In more…

through and surpass, in this case, a child’s mind, in different aspects. Deborah Parsons states in her book, “Theorists of the modernist novel”, that, contrary to the popular belief that the psychological and psychoanalytical works of Sigmund Freud influenced the modernist approach to individual consciousness, it is not the Austrian psychologist who left this mark on literature, all being as it is due to Henri Bergson: “In the first decades of the twentieth century, however, the celebrity…

American Literature began with the first real Americans, Native Americans. Native Americans told myths that were passed down for generations, often with morals and lessons, told in a mythical, magical style. Puritans shortly followed writing in plain style, often writing of their faith, as well. The Romantics period began in the 1800’s. Romantics wrote in an artistic fashion, drawling things out longer than necessary, and painting a vivid image with all of their details. Dark Romantics, a part…

Literature is the art, which express about one's ideas or emotions. It has a variety of genres, which includes the poetry. The poetry is the literary work to express the author's ideas and emotions about the tragic events, the ordinary events, the environment, the people besides the author, and the fictional characters. Moreover, the poem has the different styles, such as the haiku and the modern vers libre poetry. The haiku is the traditional form of the Japanese poem. In addition, modern…