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Literature in English: The Mid-19th through Mid-20th Century, "I…
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Sharp, crystalline images that express gendered struggles
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"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there [...] / And live alone in the bee-loud glade. / And I shall have some peace there"
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These works experiment with form, perception, and consciousness in response to rapid social and cultural change. They challenge older narrative structures and embrace fragmentation, experimentation, and subjectivity.
Writers reshaping poetic and narrative form. Feature: imagism, symbolism, and stream of consciousness
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"stopping fully in front of the wanderer, gazed at him steadfastly in the face. He noticed me not"
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These texts confront how identity is distorted by colonial, racial, or national power structures. They examine cultural inheritance, tension between personal and national voice, and the struggle to define a collective identity.
These texts confront meaninglessness, uncertainty, and crises of agency. Characters face undeniable futures, unresponsive worlds, or are paralyzed by indecision.
"When Shakespeare talks of the "Dawn in russet mantle clad" he presents something which the painter does not present. There is in this line nothing that one can call description; he presents.
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"She isn't there, little lady, and nobody's there – and you never see nothing, my sweet!"
All three of these texts question the accessibility, or trustworthiness, of the interior experience. James's epistemological ambiguity anticipates Woolf's stream of consciousness and Faulkner's experiments with subjective reality.
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"What happens when a new work of art is created is something happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order [...] which is modified by the introduction of the new [...] The whole existing order must be [...] altered"
"And indeed there will be time / To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"/ Time to turn back and descend the stair, / With a bald spot in the middle of my hair– / (They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!")"
"These faces in the crowd. : / Petals on a wet, black bough"
"I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it."
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"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power"
Where Hughes uses lyric, and Hurston uses dialect, both authors affirm Black identity
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"His own identity was fading out into a grey impabale world: the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling [...] The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes [...] snow was general all over Ireland [...] His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling [...] like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead"
Part One tells Igbo life from within, challenging colonial narratives
"He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger"
"MacDonagh and MacBride / And Connolly and Pearse / [...] Wherever green is worn / Are changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born"
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"And indeed there will be time / [...] Time for you and time for me, / [...] And how should I then presume? / And how should I begin?"