Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon

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Simultaneous Contrasts Sun and Moon

• Robert Delaunay
• French Artist

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Modernism the Effects

• Americas journey toward cultural melting pot

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Historical Backdrop

• WWI (1914-1918)
• Trench Warfare
• Lost generation of European men
• US entered in 1917 after Americans killed on an
  English ship
• Sense of disillusionment

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Post WW I

• Economy boom
• Auto industry/assembly line
• Movie industry
• Radio and Jazz

• Womens vote (1919)
• Prohibition (1920-1933)
• Bootlegging
• Speakeasies
• Gang warfare
• New Morality
• Short skirts
• Bobbed hair
• Slang

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Great Depression, WWII, Peace

• Stock Market Crash 1929
• By 1932 12 million people are out of work
• Rooseveltpresident in 1932New Deal
• America entered WWII after Pearl Harbor attack in
  1941
• Arrival of Peace and Atomic Age1945

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Literature of the time

• Fragmented omitted exposition, transitions,
  resolutions, explanations
• Themes are implied
• World begins to notice Americans
• TS Eliot (1949) William Faulkner (1949)
  Pulitzer Prize winners
• Stream of consciousnessdevelops psychology
• Simple, journalistic style (esp. Hemingway)
• Lost Generationdisillusioned by WWI move to
  Europe (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, Eliot)

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Homework

• Complete reading pages 704-712 in textbook by
  tomorrow
• Answer questions 1-12 in your packet

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Describe the situation

• Make sure to use language that appeals to all of
  your senses!
• What would you see?
• What would you feel?
• What would you hear?
• What would you taste?
• What would you smell?

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Imagists

• Poetry that engages your SENSES

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What is an imagist poem?

• Evoke Emotion
• Spark Imagination
• Use Limited, but VIVID images
• Are brief, but meaningful

Review Imagery language that appeals to the
senses.
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Ezra Pound

• An image is that which presents an
  intellectual and emotional complex in an instant
  of time.

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http//www.universetoday.com/16338/the-sun/
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What is the

• Intellectual complex?
• Emotional complex?

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In a Station of the Metro

• Ezra Pound
• Started with 30 lines ended with 14 words
• Typifies the movements focus
• Economy of language
• Imagery
• Experimentation

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The Red Wheelbarrow

• William Carlos Williams
• 1923 height of movement
• no idea but in things
• not real, not realism, but reality
• Experimental style
• Wrote in 5 minutes while looking out a window

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Section 1 and 2

• Read In the Station of the Metro and The Red
  Wheelbarrow sketch the image brought to your
  mind.
• Then , state what you think the poet was trying
  to say

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Exchange papers

• Read what your peer said/view their drawing.
• Critically assess their interpretation adding
  your own comments

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In a Station of the Metro

Add any new thoughts that emerged with these
images
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http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/galle
ry/2010/10/12/GA2010101203773.html
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The Red Wheelbarrow

• so much depends
• upon
• a red wheel
• barrow
• glazed with rain
• water
• beside the white
• chickens.

Vs. the?
Contrasting Colors
Importance of rain to farmers?
How does this reflect the imagist emphasis on the
concrete?
Add any new thoughts that emerged with these
questions
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Final thoughts

• sharing

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On the back

• Given our discussion about modernism
• How is the imagist movement distinctly modern?
  Explain.