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Literary Modernism
Literary Modernism began shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century and finished
roughly in 1965
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It was a reaction against the Victorian culture
and traditions that had prevailed for the majority of the nineteenth century
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They perceived modern society as capitalist and
antagonistic to the artistic impulse, this probably stemmed from the culture shock brought
about by World War One, which highlighted to artists that the stability of the Victorian
civilization was a thing of the past
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Leading up to World War One, Imagist poetry dominated the literary scene
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They wanted to
concentrate entirely upon the “thing itself’ and not how it is described
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Imagist poetry
was almost always short, unrhymed and sparse in terms of adjectives and adverbs
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Modernism was the beginning of a distinction between “high” and “low” art
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However, people scorned Modernist literature and so
poets found themselves alienated from mainstream society; this generated the stereotype of
the self-taught, aloof artist, producing nothing of commercial value for the market and having
no desire for public adoration, despite the fact that many of the poets were far from recluses
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The most effective poets, however, managed to make profound statements that
were absorbed by the whole of society, not just their inner circle
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Similarly, Modernist poetry is
known for the use of colloquial language that hides secondary meanings as well as the ironic
mode; deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths
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They abandoned all ornamental language and replaced it with irony and bluntness as well as
experimenting with form and genre e
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Eliots “The Waste Lands”
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Quiz Questions:
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Which key female poet was part of the imagist movement?
A – Hilda Doolittle
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