Literature in the 1890's
The Influence of War in Poetry and Modernism Between the years of 1912 and 1914 the entire temper of the American arts changed. America's cultural coming-of-age occurred and writing in the U.S. became modernized. It seems as though everywhere, in that Year of 1913, barriers went down and People reached each other who had Never been in touch before; there were All sorts of new ways to communicate As well as new communications. The new Spirit was abroad and swept us all together. These new changes engaged an America of rising intellectual Opportunities and intensifying artistic preoccupation convinced That nineteenth-century values were increasingly obsolete. The most impact was on American arts. The changes went deep, Suggesting ending the narrowness that had seemed to limit The free development of American culture for so long. "That mood was not to last. American entry into the war in April 1917 divided the radicals and weakened the progressive Spirit. By 1914 Henry James, near his life's end, had recognized the cultural implications of the war: The plunge of civilization into the abyss of Blood and darkness by the wanton fear of those Two infamous aristocrats is a thing that so gives Away the whole long age during which we have s
upposed The world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually Bettering, that to have to take in all now for what The treacherous years were all the while really Making for and meaning is too tragic for any words. For many American writers, the war marked a cutoff point from the past, an ultimate symbol for the dawn of modernity. "The major careers that dominated American writing into the 1950s started then, and so did the modern tradition. The prewar generation was largely founded in the poetry of Pound and Eliot, Frost and Doolittle, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters". (Ruland, R., & Bradbury, M. (1991). From Puritanism To Postmodernism. New York: Penguin Group). With the crash of October 1929 the whole remarkable episode Seemed to end and the "Twenties" were over. But in 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the early 1930's, the world of the Depression, poverty, starvation, descriptive writing received renewed attention. "The Waste Land is not a generalized "unreal" city. Williams turned to the shapes and secrets of his own local landscape. He verbally constitutes neighboring Paterson, at one place and Person, from its varied American history, from its contemporary Industrial debasement, its polyglot population, its trees, rocks And water." (Ruland, R., & Bradbury, M. From Puritanism To Postmodernism. New York: Penguin Group.) "Paterson is considered Postmodern poem, which can pass on lessons to later poets. Like Leaves of Grass, its aim is looking at the sholeness, a total creative immersion, a floating in the Procreative. Williams knew that with its parts and multiplication's it would
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