Modernism Movement
The movement of Modernism is largely considered to take place during these years.
1910-1940
This event unofficially kicked off the literary movement of the Harlem Renaissance.
A dinner on March 21, 1994 at the New York City's Civic Club
Transitional poets.
The following quote is from this work.
"Nature's first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold."
Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Why is the narrator of Hemingway's "In Another Country" in Milan, Italy?
To receive physical therapy after being wounded in World War I
A major distinguishing characteristic of Modernist writers was this.
Experimentation
This event brought a premature end to the Harlem Renaissance.
The Great Depression
In Hughes' poem "Harlem" what is meant by "a dream deferred"?
Unrealized social equality
The following quote is from this work.
"...I was not a hawk, although I might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted..."
In Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams," Dexter Green doesn't marry Judy Jones or Irene Scheerer for these reasons.
He leaves Irene to marry Judy, then Judy leaves him
Many Modernist writers started their careers by working as this profession.
Newspaper or magazine journalists
This author is universally recognized as the most influential voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
The following lines from Frost's poem "Acquainted with the Night" are an example of this.
"I have been one acquainted with the night. /I have walked out in rain--and back in rain./I have outwalked the furthest city light.
Parallel Structure
The following quote is from this work.
"Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow."
Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
Zora Neale Hurston uses these two rhetorical techniques effectively in her essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
Modernist literature was the first to utilize these two narrative styles.
Stream of consciousness and multiple narrators
Writers in the Harlem Renaissance wrote about this.
What it meant to be black in a white-dominated world.
What hope does the speaker of Hughes' poem "I, Too" express?
A hope to one day be recognized as an equal member of American society.
The following quote is from this work.
"When he crossed the hills the wind blew cold as misery, and if the sun was out he tramped with his eyes squinted up against the hard dimensionless glare."
Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams"
In Hemingway's "In Another Country," what did the major do before the war.
He was the greatest fencer in Italy
These are four key historical events that affected Modernism.
World War I
The 19th Amendment (women's right to vote)
Prohibition
The Great Depression/Dust Bowl
New Deal programs
The neighborhood of Harlem became a focal point for African-American culture because of this.
The Great Migration, where millions of black farmers and sharecroppers moved to the North in search of opportunity and freedom, involved thousands settling in Harlem.
This happens to the boy in Frost's poem "Out, Out-"
He cuts his hand badly on a saw and dies when the doctor puts him under ether.
The following quote is from this work.
"The stars went out and so did the moon."
Hughes' "The Weary Blues"
Judy, from Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams," symbolizes this.
Dexter's desire for higher social status