Essays on Modernism

Many modernist writers and poets created stories and poems when there was war, financial crisis, and social change. Modernists writings were written to question and re-examine traditional ways of thinking. According to class notes, most modernist writings were created after wars, such as the Russian...

It refers to late 19th and early-to-mid 20th century art. Modern art contained a unique assortment of styles, movements, and artistic techniques. Artwork that was being produced, was influenced and impacted from artists own emotions and inner imagination. It went beyond the standard expectations of traditional art. Modern...

The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it. Literature changes along with the rest of the world. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world...

T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ creates a sense of disillusion as one of the central ideas of modernism through the inclusion of it as one of the key themes in this work. Unlike the romantic period that preceded it, the...

The horrors of the Modern world do not escape WH Auden’s incisive pen as his readers are swept into a whirlwind of existential questions: who are we and what will we leave behind? Whilst situated in a context pervaded by an air of mutual hatred...

“Fiesta; The Sun Also Rises” was published in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway. Hemmingway was around 25 when the book was published and being a part of the generation who were a part of World War One, he is associated with the “Lost Generation”. The Lost...

Derek Walcott’s A Far Cry from Africa, published in 1962 is such an agonizing and didactic personal poem that explores the history of a specific uprising in Kenya, occupied by the British, in the 1950s. Davis, M. A. (2009), effectively puts in “In order to...

Transition into the twentieth century incorporated more than just the change of numbers. The Victorian era brought about scientific discoveries, a variety of literary movements, and the industrial revolution with all its benefits and challenges. However, this era came to an abrupt halt with political...

The word modern may be thought of something that is the most current form of something for example a new make or model of a phone, which is correct, but when talking about modernism the word, “modern” or “modernism” means something completely different. Modernism is...

It is no doubt that all discussions of postmodernism begin with definitions of modernism, the period and cultural phase which relied on a notion of human perfectibility and progress that were formed due to the applications of technological advances in World War II. Modernists rejected...