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The modern Age – It is one of the most turbulent ears in the history of English literature. It transformed the whole fabric of private and social life and wrought a revolutionary change in the thought and outlook of English Nation.
Modernist literature proclaim due to globalization and industrialization. Because of industrialization, there are so, many materialistic things and also find ‘individualism’. Slowly and steadily subject matters are changed. There were incresement of scientific progress and decreasement of spiritual level. So, the society reflects scientific progress, the same time spiritual level. Thus, society reflect scientific progress, the same time spiritual regresment take place in the society.
Modernity take place only when something old end or dead or is going to die.
Something replaced into another place. Something which is dying is not always worthless.
‘Nothing itself becomes something.’
‘The way of telling’ is the most important rather than telling a new story or any other things in modernist literature.
The great Victorian and modernist conflict emerge of two groups off literary writers, morality and mentally frustrated great beaten
· Everything should be examine
· Tested
· Craftsmanship
· Question is necessary
Literature deals with humanity, human beings but… religion kills humanity. In literature, for literature, Humans are more important rather than religion and science and technology. It becomes every dogma mean.
In modern age, people became critical with thinking. So, it is necessary to have to have ‘introgative mind’! There was upgrades thoughts and morality.
For example….
Bhishma And Krishna
This blog link help to have a look on the general characteristic of the modern century.
General characteristic of The Modern Age
The Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group refers to an influential group of intellectuals with an “intricate network of social, sexual, and hereditary relationships united by shared interests, attitudes of mind, and reformist ideals” who held informal meetings and discussions in the Bloomsbury area of London. Many of the meetings, called ‘at homes’, were held at 46 Gordon Square, the home of Vanessa and Clive Bell. The group, however, lacked a single political affiliation or credo and is characterized as ¨primarily an association of friends¨.
Members of the original Bloomsbury Group included:
Writer Virginia Woolf, political writer Leoonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Adrian Stephen, Karin Stephen, civil servant Saxon Sydney-Turner, art critics Robert Fry and Clive Bell, critic Lytton Strachey, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, artist Duncan Grant, economist John Maynard Keynes, novelist E.M. Forester, James and Alix Strachey, suffragette Marjorie Strachey, society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell.
The Fabian Society
Fabian Society, socialist society founded in 1884 in London, having as its goal the establishment of a democratic socialist state in Great Britain. The Fabians put their faith in evolutionary socialism rather than in revolution.
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Fabian Society, socialist society founded in 1884 in London, having as its goal the establishment of a democratic socialist state in Great Britain. The Fabians put their faith in evolutionary socialism rather than in revolution.
The name of the society is derived from the Roman general Fabius Cunctator, whose patient and elusive tactics in avoiding pitched battles secured his ultimate victory over stronger forces. Its founding is attributed to Thomas Davidson, a Scottish philosopher, and its early members included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, Annie Besant, Edward Pease, and Graham Wallas. Shaw and Webb, later joined by Webb’s wife, Beatrice, were the outstanding leaders of the society for many years.
Poetry
The poetry of the modern age expresses the chaos changing scenario of life and society. The poetry of the first two decades of the 20th century is traditional. He TIt indicates a change from Victorianism to modernism. Gradually the traditional and rural poetry of the 19th and the early 20th century began to decline.
The new poetry has new subject matter. It looked not to the country side but to the great city. The sensibility of the modern poet has been greatly formed buy urban and mechanical imagery.
The Transitional poets
The first two decades of the 20th century may be treated as a transitional period. There was no poet of promise. Alfred Austin, W.E.Henley, John Davidsion, William Watson, Francis Thompson and Housman are transitional poets.
What is War poetry?
Poets have written about the experience of war since the Greeks, but the young soldier poets of the first world war established war poetry as a literary genre. Their combined voice has become one of the defining texts of 20th century Europe.
Poetry as a way of striving to express extreme emotion at the very edge experience. War poetry is not necessarily ‘anti-war’. It is however, about the very large question of life; identity, innocence, guilt, loyalty, courage, compassion, duty, humanity, desire, death. Its response to these questions , and its relation
The War poets
The First World War and its horror greatly influenced modern poetry. The war poetry developed into two phases:
(1)Poets like Rupert Brooke who did not personally experience the horror of war and composed song of nobility of sacrifice and patriotism.
(2)Those poets who like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon had actually been to the war front of and had known the immense human suffering and depravity.
Imagism
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It has been described as the most influential movement in English poetry since the Pre-Raphaelites. As a poetic style it gave modernism its start in the early 20th century and is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism is sometimes viewed as "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development.
The Modern Age is the most complex, complicated, baffling and revolutionary Age in the history of world. It is an Age of most amazing astounding and unimaginable scientific discoveries inventions and advancement which our ancestors or even our immediate predecessors, the Victorians, could not have visualized even in dreams.
This is an Age of jet planes, space crafts, computers, internet communications, mobile phones and fax and interstellar flights which have reduced the entire cosmos into a tiny unit in teams of both time and space. There is other and dark side of the picture too. We have to invent and stocked highly divesting was armaments such as atom bomb, hydrogen bomb, antiballistic and nuclear missiles and so many other things which can kill millions of people in the twinkling of an eye. And now, threating clouds of war are fast gathering in the sky. The whole words are sitting on the mouth of live volcano.
If the world is to be saved, thinkers, philosophers, and literary man must come to the forefront replacing the politicians, war-mongers and promoters of terrorism in the world.
The present Age has not taken any lesson from the two devastating World wars though which it has passed. At the end of the First World War the league of nations was founded in 1919 to prevent further recurrence of wars and promote world peace.
In these circumstances literature would be useless if it did not serve a definite social and political purpose. The author who fails to share this conviction will be thought to be skulking in the ivory tower of mere literature cot.
The beginning or end of the age cannot be precisely dated, yet some historical event or landmark has to be sought to make the beginning and end of the certain Age.
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References;
Ward, Alfred Charles. Twentieth-Century English Literature: 1901-1960. 1966.
Long, William J. English Literature. AITBS India, 2015.
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