Modern British Literature Twitter Storify by Connor Smith https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia Study Guide of the Modernism Unit en-us 2018-05-08 18:20:52 UTC 2026-01-17 09:30:37 UTC hello@padlet.com The Romantic Period was 1901-1945. The start of the period was caused by the death of Queen Victoria's Death while the end of the period was caused by the end of World War 2. The Era had multiple parts to it such as the Edwardian Period (1901-1910) or Red Decade (1930s). There was a split of ideas between High Modernism and Social Realism. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259099289 2018-05-08 21:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259099289 High modernism themes - using images to represent hard themes, use of stream of consciousness, alternative perspectives. #en2490— Connor Smith (@BurnedToothpick) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101406 2018-05-08 21:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101406 1930s - A rise of fascism wanted art and literature to be focused strictly on politics, after writers in the 1920s thought it should be about subjects other than politics #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101513 2018-05-08 21:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101513 The 1920s(high modernism)... Art should not be about politicsThe 1930s(Social realism).... Art SHOULD be about politics #en2490— Connor Smith (@BurnedToothpick) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101647 2018-05-08 21:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101647 High modernism focused on fiction, imagist and symbolist poetry, and theatrical drama, which began in Ireland with the Irish Literary Theater and Irish National Theater. #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101702 2018-05-08 21:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259101702 One of the major historical events that influenced writers was colonization and its affects on native peoples and Europe as a whole. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259102614 2018-05-08 22:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259102614 Ivory sought out for piano keys, fake teeth, chess pieces, etc #en2490(@kimmy_singhani) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259103607 2018-05-08 22:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259103607 Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was made using imagination and symbolic poetry. The purpose was to make us understand the character's perspective. It plays on themes of colonization as well. Bringing up ideas of the savagism and rasicsm. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259123185 2018-05-09 00:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259123185 Joseph Conrad - This is his purpose, to make us feel, hear and see this new literary style he wanted to create. #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259124361 2018-05-09 01:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259124361 Conrad giving you a general feel but you have to fill in the image yourself. Like pointillism, take a step back to understand the whole image #en2490— Kimmy Singhani (@kimmy_singhani) April 18, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259124718 2018-05-09 01:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259124718 Kurtz was originally idealistic, contemplating the possibilities of white dominance if they were to take over the land. "Exterminate all the Brutes" he writes of the people who view him as a leader, in the notes he entrusts to Marlow #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 23, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259127383 2018-05-09 01:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259127383 What is the Heart of Darkness? Dying? Kurtz? Marlow? The Congo? Fear? Slipping into Darkness, cant escape?#en2490— Maggie Randall (@97mmr515) April 23, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259127663 2018-05-09 01:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259127663 While Word War 1 was starting authors like David Jones to write about war. Some Authors wrote about the horrors of war while others wrote about the beauty. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259129316 2018-05-09 01:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259129316 David Jones uses a Mythological approach to writing about the war. This text, therefore, becomes an epic by combining many literary concepts #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 25, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259130138 2018-05-09 01:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259130138 John Ball dying under an oak tree is symbolic because the oak tree is the national tree of England. Symbolizes strength and endurance. #en2490— Sara (@slw5183) April 25, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259130253 2018-05-09 01:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259130253 The glorifying of war from May Wedderburn Canaan could be seen as problematic for fellow poets that didn't feel the same about the war, mainly because May didn't experience the horrors they had to experience #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 25, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259131618 2018-05-09 01:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259131618 Different authors used different writing styles to talk about the aspects of war. There was different types topics that were written about and how they were represented. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259133411 2018-05-09 02:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259133411 #en2490 In post WW1 literature, poets addressed and illustrated "the cost of war" both figuratively and literally.— Joshua Bartsch (@joshua_bartsch) April 25, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259134236 2018-05-09 02:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259134236 Wilfred Owen is trying to create a perspective between people back home vs. the soldiers themselves #en2490 pic.twitter.com/tDshegjPmp— Maggie Randall (@97mmr515) April 25, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259134333 2018-05-09 02:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259134333 One of the more major events was the Irish rebellions, specifically the Easter Rising Rebellion. During World War 1 Britain said they would give Ireland home rule but put it off because of war and this caused tensions and rebellions from the Irish. The idea of romantic Ireland came from this. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259134810 2018-05-09 02:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259134810 "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone" - romanticized Ireland possibly when they had their own parliament, (September 1913, Yeats) #en2490— Kimmy Singhani (@kimmy_singhani) April 30, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259135720 2018-05-09 02:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259135720 Heavens part is to choose when it has been enough, the people’s part is to “murmur the names”, referring to the national heroes that like Connelly, MacDonough, etc. #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) April 30, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259135804 2018-05-09 02:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259135804 Easter, 1916 by W.B. Yeats Remember the men that have died. #en2490— Sara (@slw5183) April 30, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259135923 2018-05-09 02:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259135923 E.M. Forster's "The Other Boat" brings up racism. awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259136608 2018-05-09 02:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259136608 #en2490 "...his colour-prejudices were tribal rather than personal, and only worked when an observer was present." ( Foster, p 2128) I may be racist but I'm not a racist - Lionel pic.twitter.com/eDvlYPTvRi— Joshua Bartsch (@joshua_bartsch) May 2, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259139003 2018-05-09 02:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259139003 "Up on deck, alone with his pipe, Lionel began to recover his poise and his sense of leadership." (p2139) Lionel might have been a bit sexually confused but now has figured it out. #en2490— Connor Smith (@BurnedToothpick) May 2, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259139119 2018-05-09 02:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259139119 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259142235 2018-05-09 02:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259142235 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259142339 2018-05-09 02:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259142339 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259142440 2018-05-09 02:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259142440 The use of Imagism awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259144650 2018-05-09 02:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259144650 Imagism - An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter. (Poetry Foundation) #en2490— E.J. Lossman (@ej_lossman) May 2, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259144887 2018-05-09 02:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259144887 Imagist poems - focuses on giving clear images of the subject #en2490— Kimmy Singhani (@kimmy_singhani) May 2, 2018 awesomedude2 https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259144918 2018-05-09 02:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/awesomedude2/ip4gwnlje0ia/wish/259144918