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4. Modernist literature between wars “Ashes, Absurdities, and Atomic Echoes: Literature Between the Wars and the Void”

Literature between War and Whisper: The Final Phase of Modernism (1939–1959) From The Professor’s Desk When literature walks through the fire, it seldom comes out unburnt.The years 1939 to the late 1950s represent not a neat ending, but a scorched continuum of modernism — disillusioned by one war, scarred by another, and finally entrapped in

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

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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2. Modernist literature and World War I (1914–1919)

From The Professor’s Desk The Great War did not only kill men. It mutilated meaning. The year was 1914. The sun never set on the British Empire, and across Europe, proud nations paraded their flags to the rhythms of certainty and superiority. It was a world—arrogant, armored, and unsuspecting—marching straight into its own unmaking. In

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1. Modern Literature in a Broken World

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

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

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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