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Modernism is a genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres. This means that modernism deals with reading or writing that is similar to a certain time. The time that the modernism can compare to is either the past or the future. A very popular modernist is Shakespeare. He is a well-known modernist that uses modernism in all of his literature and plays. Modernism attempted to rethink science, art, culture, ethics, philosophy and psychology. It attempted to the find new or hidden meaning in the human experience and had to deal with coming to terms with new ideas. That is modernism and my definition of modernism. -Bryant Jeffries

The characteristics of a person demonstrate modernism. “Characters reflect a growing social isolation caused by mass industrialism, alienation, and experimentation.” (Shingler). In this poem it shows how this guy has a lot of disrespect for girls. He does this by saying that he is going to feed them oysters and then take them to a cheap hotel. I believe that he thinks this way about woman because he has been rejected in the past. Because of the woman rejecting him he writes hatful things about them. “ Like a patient etherized upon a table,” this quote from the poem shows modernism because metal patients used to be strapped onto these and they are not treated this way anymore. -Bryant Jeffries Week 3