Modernismo Entre Nosotros

"Modernism Among Us"

Modernism can be defined as a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring especially in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles. There is a variety of factors that shaped this movement such as the societies, the growth of cities, and World War I. Modernism hold thematic characteristics such as "alienation, sterility, numbness, search for tradition, questions linear time and individual will, critical of industrialization. Stylistically saw major experimentation in painting and literature. It breaks with realism and traditional forms; adopts fragmentation, collage techniques, experimentalism such as “stream of consciousness." " This movement is also associated with imagism, where "Rather than describing something--an object or situation--and then generalizing about it, imagist poets attempted to present the object directly, avoiding the ornate diction and complex but predictable verse forms of traditional poetry." (Pg. 1478) Some writers, such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot, stand out for using modernist techniques throughout the era.

Ezra Pound respond to be a major figure of the early modernist movement. He, as one of the most inflectional writers in the era, shaped modernism. Pound was a poet, teacher and propagandist who frequently used imagism and techniques of collage to fulfill his works. In imagism, "any significance to be derived from the image had to appear inherent in its spare, clean presentation. "Go in fear of abstraction," Pound said." (Pg. 1478) He published outstanding works such as The Cantos and In a Station of the Metro, which read: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough." (Pg. 1482) A very compact poem that takes place in a Paris subway with unrecognizable and fading faces. Pound did not just only impact his surroundings with campaigns for "imagism", his name for this new kind of poetry, "he was generous in his efforts to assist other writers in their work and in their attempts to get published; he was helpful to H. D., T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and Marianne Moore, to name just a few." (Pg. 1477, 1478) Inclusive, Hemingway wrote of him saying: He defends when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying. He advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide."

According to a research from The Modernism Lab, at Yale University, Ezra Pound also backed up Robert Frost's cause and ideas. He influenced some of Frost's work and supported his early career. Frost was considered one of the high modernist mover. He was highly recognized by a variety of publications such as The Road Not Taken, Mending Wall, The Gift Outright, and a few others. In The Gift Outright, Robert Frost wrote, " The land was ours before we were the land's.

She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people." (Pg. 1407) constantly referring to the land as a woman. He continued, "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, possessed by what we now

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