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A Waste Land
Name of the long poem that portrays life as empty
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author of The Great Gatsby
A horror of WWII
the Holocaust, bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Who is the "Triumphant Commoner?"
Someone who stayed close to the land (farmers)
The Harlem Renaissance
A time when Blacks flourished in music, art, literature
How did Americans feel about WWI?
less optimistic (hopeless)
One Modernist writing style
writing stories with a cliff-hanger
The public turning away from Modernist writing. Why?
It was difficult to figure out what the story meant
The New Deal
economic packet to provide work for American citizens due to The Great Depression
What natural event happened to American farms?
drought (The Dust Bowl)
Famous Harlem Renaissance writer
Langston Hughes
-did not follow in chronological order
-created cliffhangers
- forced readers to figure things out
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A non-American place that offered art studios and cafes to those who left American after the War.
Paris
Part of America that was affected the most by the Dust Bowl
Midwest
Type of Modernists Themes
implied (unstated)
Amendment 19
giving women the right to vote in 1920
"The Lost Generation"
Young Americans who left for Paris after the war
Affected by greater democratization
immigrants, Blacks and women
Writers associated with The "Poet Maker"
-Ezra Pound
-Robert Frost
-E.E. Cummings