John+T

1. Modernism is a break through. Modernism is something new that branches off of something else. Modernism is lets say, Heavy metal. Think about it, Heavy Metal got its influence off of Rock. Heavy Metal was a genre started when people wanted to try something new with music. Modernism is a genre of art or literature that makes a break from the previous genre. A very good example of modernism would be the United States of America. Think about how life would be if you lived back in 1700's It is a totally different life style and as the U.S moved on they found more technology and more reasons to move on. The U.S is a modernist country, people find new things every day and they move on and people focus on that instead of the old boring version. -John Tatterfield

3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot is about a man who either has bad luck with women or he does not want to commit to a relationship. He has some troubles with women. He quotes a lot throughout his poem "As women come and go", which stands out to me that he can't hold a women in his life. I also noticed throughout the whole poem that he says a lot of stuff about cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants. Its funny, because nobody would ever thing in their right mind to take a girl to a cheap hotel for a date. This is a very modernist poem because it happens a lot nowadays with prostitutes and pimps. I think that this is an everyday battle with life and people need to get past the fact that some people are better then what their put out to be and shouldn't be taken advantage of. -John Tatterfield

4. What is existentialism? It is a movement that was started in France because of an uprising. People were made at the fact the church took over control so the people couldn't do anything. As Leibniz said, "Existentialism separates us from the idea's based off myth." This idea of existentialism is pretty much saying "you as the people are different from one another." No two people in this whole world are the same. Not even twins, it goes all the way down to DNA. It never matches up on people that they are the exact same. Which isn't what the church said about people. The church stated everybody the same working person, unless you had money. Then you were part of the community that had a say in things. -John Tatterfield