Modernism

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Modernism

• 1914-1945

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Postmodernism

• 1945 - Present

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Modernist Literature

• The Great Figure
• By William Carlos Williams
• Among the rain
• and lights
• I saw the figure 5
• in gold
• on a red
• fire truck
• moving
• tense
• unheeded
• to gong clangs
• siren howls
• and wheels rumbling
• through the dark city.

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Postmodern Literature

• In a Classroom
• by Adrieen Rich
• Talking of poetry, hauling the books
• arm-full to the table where the heads
• bend or gaze upward, listening, reading aloud,
• talking of consonants, elision,
• caught in the how, oblivious of why
• I look in your face, Jude,
• neither frowning nor nodding,
• opaque in the slant of dust-motes over the table
• a presence like a stone, if a stone were thinking
• What I cannot say, is me. For that I came.

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Postmodernist Music

• Terry Riley The Cusp of Magic

• Pink Floyd One of These Days