Bobby+W

1. Modernism is the newest of things in the world. It is the newest fads and form of literature throughout the world. It basically refers to the thoughts and practices of people at that time period. It is a form of practice that nobody can tell a person that it is illegal and not aloud. It is a persons’ freedom to think what they would like to think. Modernism is almost like a science because it cannot be explained. It is a form of practice that is right but is a science. -Bobby Williams

3. T.S Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a perfect example of modernism. There are key words and phrases throughout the poem that indicate it to be a model of modernism. The character in the poem creates and perceives the poem to be modernism because he creates his own world and perceives it that way. “I do not think that they will sing to me” (Elliot). This quote from the poem is referring to when he is walking on the beach and he ears the mermaids singing and he states that this quote thinking they won’t sing to him. This is an example of him creating an idea and world that he perceives this because it’s him they will not sing to him. Another example of how phrases form the poem to modernism is he asks questions such as, “And should I then presume? And how should I begin” (Elliot)? Through his mind he is basically asking should I disrupt humanity or the world. Which is modernism because he is thinking and perceiving that the world doesn’t want him to bother it. -Bobby Williams

4. Existentialism is a complex theory that is kind of new to the United States as it took place around World War II. Existentialism is, “a group of attitudes that emphasizes existence rather than essence and sees the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the universe as the basic philosophical question” (Shingler). This quote, which is the definition, but in more simple words it means that a person thinks that existence is more important and focuses more on the essence. Meaning that the state of living is more important than the state of having meaning. In existentialism the fathers believe as if the state of living is most important but you can give meaning through your actions of living. -Bobby Williams

