1. Which 2 readings did you complete from the reading list provided (or from your own selections)?
- Seven pillars of wisdom and The Waste Land.
2. Based on these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works you read with the themes from the ppt presentations in class on Modernist Culture and Literature.
- Modernist literature is marked by the individualism and realism of life. The study of human being through the experience of life, the psychoanalysis; all this totally opposed to the romanticism. Modernism searches answers in a world without God, where men have the strength to fight and find the answers. A critical view to the values and somehow a loss of hope.
- These books talk about men, about their capacities and strengths. Seven pillars is a story about war, about fights and enemies, cruelty and revenge in which men are the main characters and honor is their objective, they fight for their beliefs and individual purposes, where revenge is more important than values.
- the Waste Land is a poem about death, a dark story which shows the pass of people´s death as a natural process of life. It is also war mentioned as one the main themes. Eliot shows a tour of the wastes of land, he describes how people are alive but death at the same time. There is an image of a God, but an ironic God, who seems to be just looking but not helping. Life is described as a monotonous process. The realism of life reflected in words.
Everything looks like a very close perception or reflection of modernist culture in these readings.
3. Do you feel the works you read are very good or excellent representations of Modernist Literature? Why/Why Not?
- They definitely are excellent representations, because they both reflect modernist culture and literature in all its senses.
4. Would you recommend the readings to friends or family? Why/Why Not?
- Maybe to my friends, because the readings are good instances to know and learn about how men acts and how survives in this cruel world!!
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