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1452091307_63095.doc modern american prose and poetry plan: 1. general background. 2. modern voices in prose. 3. the development 20th century american poetry. although important events often reflect themselves quickly in the literature of a country, the effect of world war i on american writing was delayed. the war promptly produced some mediocre prose and poetry, but distinguished work—mainly in the form of novels—appeared only some years later. the best came from ernest hemingway. he had already written some very good short stories and one first-class novel, the sun also rises, but he did not publish a novel fully involved with the war till 1929. it proved worth waiting for. a farewell to arms, the moving story of the love affair of a wounded american lieutenant and an english nurse, is outstanding among literary works related to world war i. hemingway had served with an ambulance group in france and then …

view of courage. the brave did not always survive in his fiction but they lived their lives to the fullest. it was not till the late 1930s that reference to the depression crept into hemingway's writing and, even then, its influence was indirect. it did not come in the form of an attack on poverty or joblessness but in a new interest in collective political action. he believed in a great alliance of liberals to fight the battles of both peace and war. when the spanish civil war began in 1936, he traveled to spain to report on it and write about it. when it was over, he published a notable novel, for whom the bell tolls. it is a war novel containing the message that all liberals must help one another, must act collectively, if good is to endure, but it is also a love story of great appeal. …

cation with his sorroundings. he realized he was part of them, and could not escape them. so he wrote more and more about his home, creating a mississippi community modeled on his own county. in it he put the characters he observed, using brilliant and complicated literary techniques to tell their stories. though his characters lived in a single southern county, he made this county represent a world. his appeal became universal, as well as particular. faulkner wrote of conflicts: the conflict of generations, old and young; of economic classes, rich, would-be rich, and poor; of races, white and black; of men, good and bad; and of the good and evil in man himself. his philosophy was that in the long run the brotherhood of man would triumph. his books made him world-famous and won him the nobel prize in 1950. during the first part of the 20th century, the …

ut punctuation. it was tried without capital letters. it was tried without any image but those to the eye. . .it was tried without content under the name of poesie pure. it was tried * without phrase, epigram, coherence, logic, and consistency. it was tried without ability. . .it was tried without feeling or sentiment. . ." the new poets felt that life was more complicated than most romantic poets had admitted, and they set about to expose its conflicts and contrasting value systems. consequently, most of these interwar poets dealt with the incongruities of existence and resorted to such devices as humor, irony, and wit to point up the multiple aspects of life. taking their cue from the imagists1 of the early 20th century, american poets between the two world wars believed that poetry should treat its subject directly, without much moralizing or added commentary; that only words which …

ee verse had important effects, for it offered new insights about possible variations in verse forms. even so "classical" a poet as robert frost was not immune to such influences toward freedom of versification. since the start of world war i in europe, frost had been publishing small collections of his verse. though the first important recognition he received came from britain, he was always essentially a new england poet. he was also a farmer, writing his poetry with the deceptive, rustic simplicity we associate with country life. he wrote about building fences, picking apples, gathering flowers, sowing and harvesting. he wrote about the universal matters of life and death, good and evil, just as faulkner did in his novels. the two world wars and the great depression between them had little effect on his verse. national and international events left it unruffled. in both emotion and language, frost was …

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1452091307_63095.doc modern american prose and poetry plan: 1. general background. 2. modern voices in prose. 3. the development 20th century american poetry. although important events often reflect themselves quickly in the literature of a country, the effect of world war i on american writing was delayed. the war promptly produced some mediocre prose and poetry, but distinguished work—mainly in the form of novels—appeared only some years later. the best came from ernest hemingway. he had already written some very good short stories and one first-class novel, the sun also rises, but he did not publish a novel fully involved with the war till 1929. it proved worth waiting for. a farewell to arms, the moving story of the love affair …

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