Modernism

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Modernism

• Themes found in lit after 1914
• Breakdown of family
• Breakdown of community
• Breakdown of civilization
• All these lead to profound
• alienation
• fragmentation
• introspection
• Imagism is central tenet of the poetry of this
  period

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National Steinbeck Center Salinas, California
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The Salinas Valley
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