-the modern period starter from the year 1914, same year the World War I started and ends in the year 1945, same year the World War II ended.
What is considered the central theme or idea of modernism
- Rationalism and innovation.
What caused people to focus on this central theme
- The time modernism started, industrialization is also on its move. Change in everything, being innovative and when people are thinking more rational about everything and anything.
What are the characteristics of modern literature
- Experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and intellectualism. The characteristics of modern literature is said to have a pessimistic vibe and complex sharing a theme of alienation that often leads to awareness of inner self.
What is especially modern about The Anecdote of the Jar
- The artist Wallace Stevens, is self conscious of his surroundings, he described the relationship of man and nature in ways we dont normally think of.
How does the form of the poem fit its theme and subject
-The subject and theme of the poem as describe is a product of self awareness thus making it fit the modernism.
What might the jar symbolize
-The jar in the poem of Stevens is symbolizing man.
What is the theme of The Snow Man
- The poem The Snow Man shows individualism and intellectualism.
What can we guess about the life and personality of J. Alfred Prufrock from T. S. Eliots poem
-That he uses to be the Michelangelo every girl dreams, he never settled and as he grows older, he is now in a dilemma whether any mermaid will ever sing to him again.
What is modern about The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is very pessimistic. The poem also exert self criticism that is not normal and what makes it very modern.
What three levels of experience does Prufrock explore (actually or in his imagination) in the poem
-Dilemma, fear and settlement.How does he feel about each of those levels
-In dilemma, Prufrock is very concerned that he is getting older, he is not what he use to be and when he reminisce about what girls use to say to him In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo.
-In fear the line But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, he is afraid if anyone is still going to be with him now that hes balding and old.
-In settlement, I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. He has accepted that he is getting older and he cant do anything about it.
In Prufrock, the famous image of the etherized patient begins a pattern of related images of . . . what
-A man who is in a relationship but doesnt really want a commitment.
What does the description of the yellow fog seem to compare the fog to
-His past life or rather his youth that is slowly slipping away.
What is the great question that Prufrock cant bring himself to ask-If he is going to settle with a woman
Does Prufrock change or learn in the course of his poem-He learned to settle in the fact that he is growing older and he cant do anything about it.
What modern attitude is expressed by Edna St. Vincent Millays Fig poems
-It is rational. The life describe in the First Fig is a rationalization of life, when you take risk, you might end up burning your life faster but it will be worth it, it gives a lovely life you can experience more of life that way.
Who were flappers
-The flappers are referred to as the women in the 20s whose lifestyle consist of bold and daring actions, and independent characteristics a feminist.
In what sense is I, being born a woman and distressed a flapper poem-In the poem of Edna St. Vincent Millay I, being born a woman and distressed she shows how society dictates how woman should depend man. She has described how being possessed is similar to death.
How does I, being born a woman use stereotypes of both men and women-In the poem, the women are perceived to be dictated by men and men is suppose to posses women.
What does the speaker in Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word intend to do Why does she want to do it
-Give me back my book and take my kiss instead. The character in the poem wants his husband to give back her book the word book signifies the education, intelligence and possibly thinking free and thinking for her.
What part of her seems to be slighted or rejected by her husband
- Come, I will show you now my newest hatAnd you may watch me purse my mouth and prink
What theme or idea do Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word and Trifles have in common
-Both are being hindered by there husband to do what they want. In Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word, the husband doesnt want her to thing freely and in Trifles, the husband hindered her from singing.
In writing Trifles, Susan Glaspell drew on the Margaret Hossacks arrest and trial for the murder of her husband, a story Glaspell had covered as a newspaper reporter. What elements did she change in creating the play What elements did she use in the play
-How John was killed, in Margaret Hossacks arrest an axed was used to kill John, in the play Trifles, Susan used a rope to kill the husband of Minnie.
What factors enable the women in Trifles to figure out what probably happened between John and Minnie Wright
-Going through the same things as Minnie, and approaching it emotionally as suppose to attack it physically.
What clues do they find in Mrs. Wrights kitchen-The half undone things in the kitchen and the dead canary wrapped in a piece of silk in a fancy box.
The psychologist Carol Gilligan argues that women tend to make moral judgments on a different basis than men do. How do Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale base their judgments of John and Minnie Wright
-They use emotions as a basis of their judgment.
How does Sherwood Anderson depict the small town of Winesburg, Ohio
-That most of who live in Winesburg, Ohio, has their own story and side to tell.
What is modern about his depiction of the town
-Hes style of experimenting with the way he wrote the novel. He used an old character to tell the story of each character he wants you to know about. Each character although a different story is connected in a sort of gross way.
What is modern about Wing as a character
-In the character of Wing Biddlebaum, the author portrayed someone out of the norm someone who you wouldnt expect in your neighborhood but is possible.
What is George Willards role in Winesburg, Ohio
-A news reporter whos flocked by everyone in town but want more of life, he is also seen as the protagonist of the novel.
What experiences of Andersons helped him create the characters in Winesburg
-His life and how he lived it, he also lived in Ohio for sometime.
Why might marginalize writerswomen or minoritiesdiffer from other modern writer
-Every woman or minority can write but if what they write imposes innovation and rationalism, that shows experimentation and other characteristics of modern writing then that is the only time they can be called modernist.
What was the Harlem Renaissance
-The movement of the new negro, this is the time when African-American begin have recognition for their literary works.
What were the attitudes of some affluent, artistic whites towards the Harlem Renaissance
-They started to take interest of what the African-American is doing
How might those attitudes have affected the artists, writers, and performers of the Harlem Renaissance
- The whites started to gain influence and copy the artist of the Harlem Renaissance, like playing jazz.
What was Zora Neale Hurstons own position on race and racial conflict How did that position affect her literary reputation
-Yes, Ms Hurston has position her literary works which speaks in a narrative black voice when she writes and she has achieved it.
How does Hurston incorporate folklore into The Gilded Six-Bits
-She used the story and how the African-Americans lived in Harlem Renaissance.
How does she create a timeless, mythic quality
-She wrote about the cultural and racial issues encountered by African Americans.
What attitude towards money does Joe and Missy Mays Saturday ritual express
-Joe throws silver dollars at their door for Missy May to find Joe buys things for Missy May to find inside his pockets. This is a fight game they do sometimes.
What attitude towards money is embodied by Otis. D. Slemmons How does the description of Otis satirize the image of the wealthy capitalist
-Slemmons is portrayed to think that money can buy everything. The capitalist at is portrayed to be very sly, they promise to give you something they dont have, in The Gilded Six-Bit it was gold.
How does Slemmons attitude towards money affect (and infect) Joe and Missy May
-It has slightly ruin the relationship of Missy May and Joe, because Missy May did agree to have sexual relationship with Slemmon in exchange for gold.
What wasis Ernest Hemingways image What made him famous, besides his writing
-His image consists of his distinct writing style. He is also famous for being a journalist and veteran of the World War I
Who is Nick Adams What is his relationship to Hemingway
-He is the protagonist Hemmingway has used in many of his stories. It portrays an experience he had in the summer in Northern Michigan when he was in service for Red Cross.
What value did Hemingways life and work often express
-Live in the moment. Being bold, rugged individual of America
What is Hemingways version of the modern style
-Existentialism
What kinds of words (nouns, verbs, etc.) characterize the Hemingway style
-Unconventional, short, concrete and direct prose
How does that style work in Big Two-Hearted river to put us inside of Nicks experiences -Individualism and post traumatic syndrome.
What was Hemingways Iceberg theory
-It states that if a writer knows what he or she is writing about, he can omit words and the readers will still get the writers point, but if a writer omits words because he doesnt know it, the readers will not get what he wrote and end up having a gap in his writing.
If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
-Ernest Hemingway
If we apply that theory to Big Two Hearted River, what might be the part of the iceberg thats below the surface of the story
-He applied the iceberg theory in writing the life of Nick, he did not say what the symbolism of the black grasshopper is, the burnt forest and even the fishes, but the readers understand it because he knows what he is writing about.
What parts of the story might seem to reveal whats below the surface
-The black grasshopper from the burnt forest, this symbolizes the damage the World War I has made, the grasshopper being the people who are forever traumatized by what has happened in the war. When Nick was fishing he first caught a small fish but they let go, hes line then caught a big fish which he struggled and fight with but end up failing, he then caught two medium fish in the end. It is like Hemingway is saying to be contented with the medium fishes rather that fight and suffering to catch bigger fishes or opportunity that might leave us with nothing in the end.
If we see Nick as anxious or traumatized, what might be the source of his trauma
-He is traumatized by what he has encountered in World War I.
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