Modernism as a movement was a response to the horrors of World War-I and to the rising industrial societies and growth of cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It challenged the harmony and the rationality of the Enlightenment and sought to reinvent art and literature of the age. To do so‚ it broke away from the works of the past and conventions that were earlier held at a pedestal. The conception that reality could be easily be comprehended was replaced by modernism with a more
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focused on the birth of the modern world. Describe in detail 3 key cultural‚ scientific‚ philosophical or political dimensions of the Enlightenment and 3 key aspects of the later Modernist movement. In your conclusion‚ compare the Enlightenment with Modernism. How were these movements similar and different? How did they shape modern Western culture? 2. The French Revolution was perhaps the single most important geopolitical event of the 18th and 19th centuries. Drawing on your secondary and primary
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Write an essay in which you explore the interplay of imagination and the human experience in Romanticism. Composers in the Romantic era challenged the constraints of a society upheaved by events such as the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution‚ which they perceived to be devoid of meaning. They hence championed that the individual should embrace a relationship involving the interplay of the imagination with the human experience of nature and of emotion. Composers such as Samuel Coleridge
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“Modernism was a colorful trend‚ it manifested in a different way in many national cinemas. For example the French new wave become famous for its playfulness‚ Italian post-neorealist for the alienation of its neurotic characters‚ the Czechoslovak new wave for its grotesque kitchen sink realism‚ Polish cinema for its historism and the Hungarian new wave for its parabolic stories. But even though its diverse national versions‚ Modernism was an international phenomenon
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One of the best parts of working on exhibitions drawn from the ZMA’s extensive permanent collection is the opportunity it provides for a look at some of the hidden gems at the museum. During the preparation of Sketching American Modernism‚ I discovered a painting that captured my interest. The work was the Portrait of Mrs. Helen McCoy Storer‚ c. 1910 by Charles Alden Gray (1857-1933). While arguably not by one of the most well-known artists in our collection‚ it was‚ at that moment‚ the most intriguing
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scheme in each stanza is ABCBDD. Commentary One of the most unusual features of Yeats’s poetic career is the fact that the poet came into his greatest powers only as he neared old age; whereas many poets fade after the first burst of youth‚ Yeats continued to grow more confident and more innovative with his writing until almost the day he died. Though he was a famous and successful writer in his youth‚ his poetic reputation today is founded almost solely on
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Modernist writing is also very self-reflexive and deals with inner thoughts and feelings. A broken narrative can be present which is when the narrative stops completely or utilizes flashbacks and often picks up on different threads of thought. Modernism also holds a huge concern for tradition. I believe that modernist writer‚ Wallace Stevens‚ utilizes all the above aspects in his poem‚ “Sunday Morning.” The fragmentary thoughts are very apparent throughout Steven Wallace’s poem because the work
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Swans at Coole by W.B Yeats is one of musicality as it is a direct expression of personal feelings‚ identified as the author’s. The lyrical poem includes three main subjects: setting‚ serving as a correlative to these feelings‚ Swans as the trigger‚ and the poet himself. Written in loosened iambic pentameter and consisting of five six-line stanzas rhymed ‘abcbdd’‚ the poem’s reflective and melancholic mood reflect the time of the poems first appearance. During the year of 1916‚ Yeats’ spirits were low
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W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was a lonely and unhappy boy‚ because of which he began to day dream and write escapist poetry. Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. In 1889‚ Yeats met Maud Gonne‚ then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist. Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner‚ and she was to have a
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1. This poem suggests that politics are not important. Does the poet convince you? Write a paragraph in response‚ with reference to the text. 2. Yeats uses symbols to express some of his most profound ideas. What symbols in this poem appeal to you? Use reference to the text in your response. 3. ‘Yeats is yearning for order‚ and fearing anarchy.’ Discuss two ways in which the poem illustrates this statement. Support your answer with reference to the text. 1. This is a political poem. What kind
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