The Twentieth Century

Novel:  Lack of linearity, experimental style, jumps in time, interlacing, focus on stream of consciousness, free indirect style, go inside character's head
Poetry:  Ambiguity, symbolism, fragmentary, taboo - poverty, sexuality, reality, social class language

WWI:  Number of people dead - shocked civilization, staggering numbers, meaninglessness, purposelessness, estrangement, alienation

Political, symbolism (circles/spirals - life, time, progression), dataism, dramatist.
The Man Who Dreamed of FaerylandThe Wild Swans at CooleLeda and the SwanEaster 1916

Yeats:  (abba, cddc, effe) attention to rhyme scheme - syntax, easy to read.Desire for clarity, surreal aspect (creatures - fish, worms singing), abstract - pay attention to what we look past.Faeryland - Ireland, desire for naturalism, dreaming of free Ireland.

Yeats:  Swans represent freedom.Life has broken him down - he has changed, wearyHeart break with a woman - Swans are a reminder of what he could have had.He has grown older, loss of youthLake - reflection of his life.Swans are youthful, never changing - sense of reflection, cyclical, peacefulness, tranquility, romantic.

Yeats:  Rape of Leda by the swanCreature forces himself - inherent violence amidst the almost beauty.Sense of ambiguity - don't have closure, entering into her psychology.

Yeats:  Stanza 1 - 16 lines for 1916, Stanza 2 - 24 lines for the  Easter uprising, 24th.Anti-violence, Elegy for those who died, important deaths, worthy of poetry. Died for a cause, terrible but beautiful.Rise of Irish nationalism, green=Ireland, Use of I - autobiographical.National realism, reflective, important questions unanswered.

Modernist:Oder of ChrysanthemumsRainbow

D.H. Lawrence:  Death restores truth - a welcoming.Walter - denies who he was, long work days, almost invisible, exhausted, lives are drained, no time for eachother.  Depressed, suicide-doesn't know his own family.Elizabeth's realization=life is meaningless.Chrysanthemums=Fading love, broken promises (Pink, pale, brown)

D.H. Lawrence:  Death of Freedom=common themeHomoeroticism in the chapter - sexually daring, manish lesbianOne soul being worn down, no conscious direction, purpose, find your own escape, tired of pretending, do what makes you happy.

Quintessential author of the timeThe DeadFinnegan's Wake

James Joyce:  Self point of view, Shifting narrative structures.Gabriel - common man, how to act, identities, loyalties, doesn't want to seem too educated.Social Gathering - pretend to have a good time. Piano - vigorous clapping, lack of earnestness, pretend. Irish Literati.Desire to embrace wife, grace, honesty - once had true joy, passion.Michael Furry - Waits out all night, dies for her.  Makes impact, his life had meaning.Gabriel never felt that love, passion, to die for, feels humiliated, shame.Snow - shroud, cleansing

James Joyce:  A wake - morn over the body of FinneganWhisky is poured over the body, wakes up.Experimental period, stream of consciousness

Anti-romantic - influenced by metaphysical, expression of existentialism.The WastelandThe Love Song

T.S. Elliot:  Straight from the hear, honesty, truthSense of confusion, frustration, misunderstoodPlaced in a hell of modern society - misunderstanding.Fog=not clear, sense of inactivityFeelings of emptiness, loneliness, sleep, argument, depressingMermaids=fantasy, resolution - not upbeat, loss of life, voices wake him, drown, death - suitable end, comfort, numb