Roaring World in Modern and Postmodern: World Conditions in Spicer’s and Eliot’s Poem
Breaking rules and traditions, and living aimlessly are the two main characteristics of the two periods of time from modern to post-modern, between the late 19th century and the late of 20th century. According to “Modernism & Modernist Literature: Introduction and Background” article, that the expression ‘modernism’ in general “covers the creative output of artists and thinkers who saw ‘traditional’ approaches to the arts, architecture, literature, religion, social organization had become outdated in light of the new economic, social and political circumstances of a by now fully industrialized society”(1). People in those period of time lived a chaos world,
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The usage of words in Eliot’s poem, like ‘trampled edges’ ‘damp souls’ ‘brown waves’ ‘tear’ ‘muddy skirts’ ‘aimless’, are description of countries and people after wars. In the same way, the style of this poem; no rhyme, no meter, no punctuation, shows people situation during and in between the War World one and the World War two. They are dispersed, nothing as how it used to be. It shows a picture of poor people and that is the theme. One of the most influential results of wars on society is the creation of a marginalized people and racism. There are servants who work for upper-classed people “the damp souls of housemaids” not one or two housemaid but many. In Spicer’s poem, the wars results, also, pointed out by the use of words, style and theme. The words in the poem describe wars; ‘humiliating’ ‘disguises ‘tougher’ ‘white and aimless signals’ ‘no one listen’ all of those words are description of people conditions while wars are spreading. For example, the ‘white and aimless signals’ (L11) refers to the white flag which associates with surrendering. This poem was written during the Civil War, so in line nine, ‘pepper and salts’ may refer to race black and white. The African-American people were fighting to get their rights. The last word in the same line the poet mentions ‘the death’ and the sentence is continued in the next line ‘that young men hope for’ (10), this means that the Afro-American are fighting to get their rights even if this way may take their life from them, they will fight till the end. The style of the poem is very confused; there are lines with a word or two as if it takes time to complete these sentences as in wars there is nothing obvious and complete before the end of it. The poet critics the industry world and how it destroy the environment and people’s minds, and these are parts of the
Though the start of the modernisation may trace back to the beginning of Industrial Revolution. “Modernism in the design world did not exist in a fully developed form, until well after First World War.” (Wilk, 2006) Causing the great loss of lives and other countless damage to the world, it reshaped many people’s way of thinking the world. With the inspiration of early avant-garde movement, the modernism began to emerge advocating an utopian future and shared certain core principles by various styles of modernists: rejecting the past and applied ornament; forms follow function, a preference for
The world is a beautiful place to live in blissful ignorance. The grassy meadows, the alluring sunset and the serene waters are a few of many scenery that beguile human beings into believing that the world is beautiful. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s life experiences as an orphan and a soldier in World War II had shown him the flaws of society that has existed in many generations such as hunger, death and inequality. To raise consciousness of the world, he used his literature to achieve this goal. In the didactic poem, “The World is a Beautiful Place”, Lawrence Ferlinghetti reveals the brutal truth of the world in order to break the narrow-minded and ignorant outlook people have towards the world. Many poetic devices were used to emphasize the theme of the poem. Repetition and imagery was used to remind the readers of the underlying bitter tone of the poem while showcasing the different life scenes in the world. Enjambment was also used throughout the poem to
At one point or another in one’s lifetime, people let go one thing to try and move on to something bigger and better, whether it’s a new job or new way of life. In its entirety, modernism is similar. It can be defined as moving away from the traditional creations and activities towards news tasks formed by the individualism and freedom within a man or woman. For instance, in the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker eventually moves on from his previous set of ideas to something new. Similarly, in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings, the main character doesn’t feel comfortable with the repetitious structure of the society he’s placed in. This leads the main character to form his own opinion, uncommon to his society,
Postmodernism is a term which is highly contested in the sociological world, where it is used to indicate a significant detachment from modernism. It is easier to give the uses of the term; ‘to give a name to the present historical period, to name a specific style in arts and architecture and to name a point of rupture or disjuncture in epistemology’ (Buchanan, 2010). For this,
Throughout time, the changes in society have been represented in art, literature, and music. These works have been organized into movements to better see the development of society and how different events have affected it. One of the most prominent movements that displayed the drastic changes in society was Modernism. Modernism was a break from tradition and exemplified the unique changes in societal views. Beginning after multiple cultural shocks, especially World War I, this movement was characterized by the alienation of the individual and preoccupation with one’s inner-self.
Modernism was a movement that was developed during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Modernism developed due to the changes happening in societies at the time. Around the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century there was a rise in the industrial society’s where there were advancements in technologies and machines, and a rapid growths in cities. This lead to a change in cultural trends and philosophies, which is known as modernism. Modernism was well known for the rejection on traditional way, such as the arts and beliefs. It rejected the idea of realism and religious beliefs. During these years modernism could be distinguished by two aspects, High and Low Modernism.
Post modernism is a difficult view point to interpret or describe in a few words, as to provide an insightful description that remains succinct is quite ironic as postmodernism opposes the attempt to ascribe one broad meaning to any “thing”. Postmodernism has often been referred to as the destruction of the Metanarrative. Thought-out all cultural eras society has usually had a focal point in their cultures. The age of enlightenment used God, modernists used technology, postmodernism seems to have disregarded structure all together. We can only truly understand what postmodernism is if we can understand the ideas that modernism portrayed. Postmodernism is the rejection of the ideas and structure that is the foundation of modernism. The rise of postmodernism can be drawn down to the rejection of trust in authority and the beginning of questioning everything. Postmodernism can be evident and demonstrated through a multiple of mediums such as art, architecture and literate. It breaks sharply away from the past, takes elements from the past, but doesn’t endorse their original purpose.
The word ‘Modernity’ was first used by Baudelaire in the mid-nineteenth century. He describes modernity as the fashionable, fleeting and contingent in art, in opposition to the eternal and immutable. In relation to modernism, modernity is considered to de-scribe a way of living and of experiencing life which has arisen with the changes prel-uded by industrialization, urbanization and secularization.
In recent years few terms have been so widely discuss as ”postmodernism” in order to define its basic principals. Despite a lack of consensus, most authorities agree that postmodernism represents some kind of reaction to, or departure from, modernism and modernity (Brown 1993). The consumer of the modern society is distinguished by being self-reflexive and rational while the characteristics of the irrational postmodern consumer are hyperreality, fragmentation, reversals of production and consumption, decentring of the subject, paradoxical juxtapositions, and loss of commitment (Firat et
Modernism and Postmodernism are two art movements that massively contribute to each other’s ideas and principals, however have elements within them that are completely opposite to each other. This questions whether their principles actually help each other and if deep down are in somewhat similar, or whether the two ideas are wholly separate.
Post modernity or post modernism as coined during the counter culture era of the 1960s and 70s has been highly contestant, ever since it was first used describe the death of modern architecture and art during the same period. It is this debate of being in a state of modernity or post modernity that will lead me to describe the shifts in cultural, economic and political views and values that demonstrates a shift in values from modern to post modern views sociy. This shift to post modernity has been highly influenced through the works of postmodern artists and architects and academics such as Focult (Venn, C., & Featherstone, M. 2006), Burroughs, Barthelme, Rauschenberg and Cage (Clarke, S. 2006), who all describe modernity being an exhausted idea, due to the shift of values changing society to a period of post modernity.
In conclusion, I don’t agree whether our age is the age of modernism because in our age there is no singular modernity there are more than one modernitites. Westernization is the first that adopt modernisms, and it shaped many other socialites on adopting new institutions like nation-state. Yet this led to the clashes of civilization, when non- western societies had it’s own way of modernity and modernity doesn’t mean westernization, both are not identical. And finally the damages of modernity after World War I and World War II gave rise to some issue like violence, terror and
Post-Modernism is a revolutionary era that follows Modernism and developed in mid to late twentieth century. It takes a changed and developed approach across philosophy, art, criticism, and architecture and makes a departure from Modernism. The term Postmodernism is applied to an era that both follows modernity, and also acts as a host of movements that emerged during the era especially in art, music, and literature, marked by the tendencies against modernism. It is more like the ‘rejection of conventional social norms’, followed by the ‘Counter-culture’ movement. ‘Counter-culture’ movement spreads massively in Europe and North America during mid 20th century, which is a subculture whose norms of behavior and values substantially differ from those of dominant mainstream society and culture. Its 1960’s to 1970”s development generated a unique brand of its own in the field of notable literature, including comics and cartoons.
I can clearly say that we live a postmodern society overshadows modern. The realization that postmodernism is label as a board movement that start in the mid- to late 20 centuries. But let’s first define what the difference between the two topics. Postmodernism consists of philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism. While modernism is a modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique. Sit back and relax while I take you on a journey about my argument on postmodernism. Postmodernism, on the hand, is a movement that took place during the late 20 centuries. It took place right after World War II, but it gained more attention in the the 1960. We can tell about a postmodernist society through arts, music, and political views. They question the rationally of modernism society. It’s been told that their no connection between the past and the present and past events are irrelevant in the present. We can tell that postmodernism is a dogma response to modernism. It’s the rejection of traditional ideas. Plus, how we can make a feel of it. In a postmodernism we can generally tell the difference between religion and science. Postmodernism is constructed by a political, social, and historical perceptions. Therefore, their nothing can be competently explained by the sorted of any grand theories, ideas, or narratives. It’s always self-referential and ironic. Postmodernism is the way we used to critique certain things work or the way certain things are. Postmodern
Modernism is closely associated with the setting in of modern civilization compared to postmodernism. It is modernism that lay the foundation for postmodernism (Muller 312). After the World War II, the human race achieved what is referred to as postmodernism. The two concepts may appear antagonistic in nature, but a closer look at each reveals how well each complements the other. Art and literature are among the numerous human aspects that have been influenced in diverse ways by the concepts of modernism and post-modernism. In this paper, the significance of developmental studies in elaborating the two concepts as the poles of negotiation rather than competing concepts shall be highlighted more so from Miller’s school of thought.