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A POETIC RENAISSANCE

A POETIC RENAISSANCE. IN THE MODERNIST ERA. THREE ERAS/schools OF THOUGHT. Remember what we know about Modernism: Happens 1900-1950 World War I and World War II Reaction to dehumanizing trends in America: anonymity, loss of individual, reject traditional ways of seeing things

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A POETIC RENAISSANCE

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  1. A POETIC RENAISSANCE IN THE MODERNIST ERA

  2. THREE ERAS/schools OF THOUGHT Remember what we know about Modernism: • Happens 1900-1950 • World War I and World War II • Reaction to dehumanizing trends in America: anonymity, loss of individual, reject traditional ways of seeing things • Modernists were experimenting with new forms/new ideas but they hadn’t discarded meaning yet: they were trying to create MEANING through the reorganization of knowledge

  3. First school of thought • Saw the increasing dehumanization • They rebelled against taboos: experimentation • They hungered for spiritual enlightenment • They had a renewed sense of responsibility for fellow humans • They wanted to affirm human dignity in the face of dehumanizing trends • They wanted to change things! Point out flaws and work toward change.

  4. Second school of thought • Began to focus more on ideas and order • Increased emphasis on moving away from personal poetry: instead, these poets sought to use poetry to make an intellectual statement about the world • Sought to discover the true meaning of objects and ideas • Poems could still be personal, but they required the reader to make a connection to something larger/outside their personal experience

  5. THIRD school of thought • Poets are more affected by social change and cultural challenge • Affected by the history of the time period: World War I, Roaring Twenties, Stock Market Crash, Harlem Renaissance, governmental issues (Marxist and totalitarian, World War II • Poets asked questions about how to live in the new world created by modern difficulties • Dealt with questions of how to see the world, how to be moral, how to deal with problems of the time • Some poets began to fade into Postmodernism at the end: there might be no meaning at all!

  6. SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT • These are not hard and fast time periods • Instead, these three schools of thought blend/bleed into each other. • But they do bring different tones to their poetry and so we can make some delineation, especially when we see how history affects people’s view of literature

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