Modernism, in the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentalism in the arts from the late 19th to the mid 20th century particularly in the years following world war 1.
In an era characterised by industrialisation, rapid social change, and advancea in science and the social science, modernist felt a growing alienation incompatible with victorian morality, optimism, and convention. New ideas in psychology, philosophy and political theory kindled a search for new modes of expression.
Related artists:-
Virginia Woolf
T. S. ELIOT
William Faulkner
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
Henry James
Arnold Schoenbery
Marcel Proust
Anton Webern
Miles Davis
Significant works:-
The Waste Land
Finnegans Wake
Four Quartets
Absalom, Absalom!
The love song of J. Alfred
Prufrock
The sound and the Fury
To the light house
Ulysses
Thw waves
1) Darknesa - Joseph Campbell
Darknesa,
I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole-
A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.
I look at it, and pass on.
The title itself reflects the dark shade which gives the negative feeling. Darkness also read further poem then poet tells that it's night time and the sky is without the stars. The star are the symbol of goodness, positivity, light and hope. Here poet tries to portrait the decayed condition of thw civilization.
2) Moderning at the window - T. S. Eliot
They are ratting breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaid
Sprouting despondently at ares gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vaniahes along the level of the roofs.
In this poem we get the images and symbols of the dead spirit in people, who are doing everything aimlessly. Death of spirit can be seen here. Here their soul has became 'Damp' means lifeless. 'Fog' is also a negative word as it doesn't give the clear view. 'Twisted faces', 'tears', 'muddy skirts', 'aimless smile' are the words in poem which gives us negative feelings.
In an era characterised by industrialisation, rapid social change, and advancea in science and the social science, modernist felt a growing alienation incompatible with victorian morality, optimism, and convention. New ideas in psychology, philosophy and political theory kindled a search for new modes of expression.
Related artists:-
Virginia Woolf
T. S. ELIOT
William Faulkner
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
Henry James
Arnold Schoenbery
Marcel Proust
Anton Webern
Miles Davis
Significant works:-
The Waste Land
Finnegans Wake
Four Quartets
Absalom, Absalom!
The love song of J. Alfred
Prufrock
The sound and the Fury
To the light house
Ulysses
Thw waves
1) Darknesa - Joseph Campbell
Darknesa,
I stop to watch a star shine in the boghole-
A star no longer, but a silver ribbon of light.
I look at it, and pass on.
The title itself reflects the dark shade which gives the negative feeling. Darkness also read further poem then poet tells that it's night time and the sky is without the stars. The star are the symbol of goodness, positivity, light and hope. Here poet tries to portrait the decayed condition of thw civilization.
2) Moderning at the window - T. S. Eliot
They are ratting breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaid
Sprouting despondently at ares gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vaniahes along the level of the roofs.
In this poem we get the images and symbols of the dead spirit in people, who are doing everything aimlessly. Death of spirit can be seen here. Here their soul has became 'Damp' means lifeless. 'Fog' is also a negative word as it doesn't give the clear view. 'Twisted faces', 'tears', 'muddy skirts', 'aimless smile' are the words in poem which gives us negative feelings.
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