Modernist Poetry

3. Modernist literature between World Wars : After the Guns Fell Silent

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3. Modernism : After the Guns Fell Silent — Literature Between Wars A world trying to forget. A literature that refused to. From The Professor’s Desk The war was over. But the wound was not. Modernist literature between World Wars The year was 1919. Europe was exhausted—physically, spiritually, artistically. The battlefield had fallen quiet, but […]

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1. Modern Literature in a Broken World

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HOME History of English Literature Prose, Novel & Fiction The Literary Scholar’s WitNotes Poetry Appreciation MODERNISM: Literature in a Broken World (Modern Literature from 1901 to ~1955 — shaped by War, Science, Psychology, and Disillusionment) From The Professor’s Desk “A New Century Dawns — But With Strange Clouds” “The year was 1901. Victoria, the great

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Lyric-Scroll 007: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: When Anxiety Ordered the Crab and Forgot the Toast

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A Poem About Tea, Time, Bald Spots, and the Unbearable Weight of Maybe ABS Believes:Some love songs serenade others. This one apologizes to itself before saying hello.Poetry doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, it just measures life in spoons and sighs. Meet Prufrock: The Man Who Overthought Breathing If Hamlet got older, balder, and started shopping for

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Lyric-Scroll 001. T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land: When Modernism Had a Meltdown in Five Acts

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Poetry, Prophets, and Post-War Panic—With Bonus Footnotes Nobody Asked For ABS Believes: Some poems whisper. This one throws a shattered mirror at you and dares you to find meaning in the reflection. T.S. Eliot — The Man  Who Made Confusion Profound (From mental fog to footnotes, and still somehow Nobel-worthy) Before there were lyrics about

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AmL-9 Robert Frost: The Man Who Took the Road Less Traveled (and Then Made You Regret Choosing Anything)

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Or, The Poet Who Made Nature Look Gorgeous and Emotionally Threatening at the Same Time By ABS, the Literary Scholar, who believes Robert Frost didn’t just win four Pulitzer Prizes—he quietly collected them like frostbitten warnings, proving that a poet could turn snowy woods and stone walls into lifelong existential crises. Robert Frost is the

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