Zachary+R

Modernism is... 1. Modernism is a new form that is based off of what was before. It is a cultural movement that is progressive for art. It takes something and makes it into something new and improved. Modernism is the same concept of something and making it into something new. Like video games for example, if there is a series the difference between the first and second games the first one will have more wepons and more advantages but it still is the story is still the same. Modernism is in our everyday lives. A lot of companies are using it to keep up with the up and coming generations. It has always been her and it always will. - Zach Romano

2. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot is about a man that doesn’t know what he wants. He says in the song “its impossible to say just what i mean". He just wants to do what he wants and that’s it. He doesn’t want to be told what to do or go by the rules. He takes women to cheap motels and cheap dinners so he can get what he wants out of them. After he gets what he wants he is done with them, no attachments. He is an unstable man who isn’t sure what he wants in life or what he is going to do next. This is modern because this wasn’t really how things were then. He is a very confused man who needs someone in his life. -Zach Romano

3.The term existentialism means a group of attitudes that emphasis existence rather than essence and see the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the universe as the basic philosophical questions. Existentialist believed that existence precedes essence. The look more at the inward than the outward. They think it is better that they are here than they have to do something; I think therefore I exist, is what they would believe in. They thought that people and objects do exist. There were faults to this though. Like that people and objects have no meaning. This was after WWII. -Zach Romano