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New Direction 1910- 19030 - Coggle Diagram
New Direction 1910- 19030
The Era of Modernism
Life in the early twentieth century seemed suddenly different, new inventions allowed people to travel to place with a speed that was never before possible.
The thelephone, the radio, and the widespread availability of books, newspaper, and magazine all made people more aware on how others lived.
The years of 1910 to 1930 are called the Era of Modernism, for there seems to have been both Europa and America a strong awareness of some sort "break" with the past.
The Lost Generation
The European and American artistic communities drew closer together, Pound acted as the London representative of Poetry: Magazine of Verse, an experimental publication begun in Chicago by Harriet Mobroe in 1912.
Artist and writers taught one another, learned from one another, paid one another's bills, and helped one another bring new works before the public.
Many American writers of this period lived in Europe for part if not all of their lives like: Ezra Pounds went to London, Robert Frost visit England, Gertrude Stein settled in Paris, poet Langston Hughes and playwrite Eugene o'Neil.
World War I was the important event in the early twentieth century experience, an event that had a profound effect on the optimism that had preceded it.
Charles Lindbergh piloted an airplane across the Atlantic and became every one's hero.
This was the Jazz Age, when New Orleans musicians moved up the river to Chicago and the theaters of New York's harlem pulsed with the music that had become a symbole of the time. Most famous poem "The waste Land"
Modernist Literature
The modern psychology had profound impac on the early twentieth century, and most great modernist writers were interesting in works of the human mind.
The visual appearance of poetry is also a signification factor, another means of breaking with tradition for examples the poem of E. E. Cummings.
"Make it new" was the cry of Ezra Pound, and most other writers of the time worked vigorously and self consciously to make their poems and plays and novels new and different.
Modernist literature is often fragmentary, reflecting and not only the stream of consciousness.
Authors: Pound and Doolittle imagist and most of the poems of Gertrude Stein and William Carlos William.
One of the most fascinating aspects of Modernist literature is the way each individual writer comes to terms with the changes of the time
The Modernist Achievement
The Modernist achievement in poetry, fiction, drama, in music and painting, in sculpture and architecture.
They took te first steps to search a new art and they broke out of old forms and styles and creat new ones.
Time Line 1910-1930
1922- Egypt Tutankhamen discovered
1924- Congress makes all native-born American Indians citizens
1920- Women gain right to vote
1927- Charles Lindbergh makes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
1917- U.S declares war on Germany
1929- Stock Market crashes: Begginig of he Great Depression
1914- World War 1 begins
1923-Germany Nazi party wins plurality in national election
1912- Atlantic Ocean: Titanic sinks
1911- Pulitzer Prizes establihed