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1. Modernism is found in two things. Modernism is mainly found in literature. A form of text found in this genre will typical have very controversial topics in it. Most American modernism literatures take place during the time that minorities were persecuted. The second place you would notice modernism is in thought. This thought invokes a very modern way of thinking. An Australian modernalist author named Bryan Appleyard said, “Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God” (Appleyard). This way of thinking started way back during the Enlightenment period. Up until the Enlightenment people just thought that God was an “all mighty” power and he was the reason that everything happened. When they started to notice that there were scientific explanations for everything they started to rewrite their laws with out the influence of god. - Scott Bentley

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3. T.S. Elliots poem The Love Song of Alfred Prufronk is a perfect example of a modernist poem. This is because through out the poem you read about how he was alone and alienated from society. The perfect example of this was the 9th stanza from the poem, "For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.So how should I presume?" (Elliot). With him stating the line for i have known them all already he is saying how people come in and out of his life. The reader knows this when he reads the line the voices are dying. He describes how the music from another room is drowning out the voices and this represents how he is alienated because he was not invited to the party. Then he continues on by saying he can measure is life with coffee spoons. With this statement he is showing how every morning he drinks his coffee all alone. So this poem was a perfect example of modernist because most modernist were alienated from society.====== -Scott Bentley

4. Existentialism is defined as with //ESSENCE// over //EXISTANCE//. What this means is to truely exist an oblect or person needs to perform a nessesary duty. Ernest Becker, a long existentialism thinker said, "[People] cannot endure [their] own littleness unless [they] can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level" (Becker). What this means is that all people are filled self dought or "littleness". With this littleness people are filled with unfufilment. When people acchive the goals that they went after and became useful, these people would of achived Existance. For example a computer is a computer filled with chips and memory until a student uses that computer to produce a paper. With the student using the computer it gave the computer a meaning to exist. With the mentioning of the highest greatest level possible can only mean that the existance is only minamal with the unless it has achieved great heights. Back to the computer example, lets say when the student wrote the paper it was conpleted half ass and the student recieves a D- for. By achieveing the D- the computer showed it existed but to the smaller levels of it. Lets say that the student worked exceptionally hard on the paper and the student recieved an A+. By achieveing the A+ the computer had also achieved the the highest possible level of //EXISTANCE//. -Scott Bentley