Galen+M

1- Modernism is behaving and thinking in modern thought. You are in the 21st century so you are not acting or speaking from the 16th century or such. If you practice modernism you are not exactly like other people but you aren’t completely different per say. Everyone is different to a degree and alike to a degree also. Modernism is being with the times, you speak like how people speak to a degree and also act how people act also to a degree. If you are a modernist you think in this modern time and not how people did centuries ago. Modernism is being “up to date” in everything so in essence you know what is going on and can think for yourself properly. Being a modernist today means dealing with a lot of technology.

-Galen Mayou

3- T,S, Eliot’s poem is modernist because it talk ins in a way that is absent of a time period. He relates to the world through time and people, aspects that never change through the eras. “There will be time, there will be time; To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands,” (Eliot 1). He speaks of time, but not specific time so it keeps a modern tone applying to any age. This is a very modernist statement to make because it was modern then written and if repeated in the passage of time it would be considered modern. He also talks about preparing a face, again lacking specifics of how it is prepared, to meet the faces you meet; this related to the style of any point in time, thus being able to fit into modernism once again. To have time to murder and to create and work, all necessities of any time period; this is a pattern throughout that explains why the poem is modernist. -Galen Mayou

4- Existentialism is existence over essence. “I think; therefore I exist” (Descartes, 1) is the example for existentialism because people and things exist, but people and objects have no meaning, but existentialists believe individuals give, meaning through action. Through acts of freedom we obtain self creation and that gives us existence which gives us meaning and we are more then an essence of a person. Essence is our nature or who we are, having an essence meant human beings could be placed within a larger whole that the standard for human flourishing. Existence is what something is or the fact or state of living or having objective reality. Existentialism is how we live now we exist we aren’t just someone taking up space in the world. -Galen Mayou