Modernism

Modernism

1. Experimenting with a new literary form – A new type of poetry writing. Picture

2. Presenting the thoughts of a character in a nonlinear fashion – Have to think, not straightforward. Picture

3. Reader must decode fragmentary content (as well as experimental content) – Have to solve the puzzle in order to get the idea. Picture

4. Fragmentary content; there is no whole – Also same as solving the puzzle Picture

5. Readers must participate: add emotion and draw their own conclusions –If you read without thinking, it will be very plain, but if you put some imaginations in it, it will be a totally different world. Picture

6. Artist intentionally present puzzling features because the mystery itself is the message – After solving the puzzle, you still need to think what is happening. Picture

7. Art echoes and portrays a sense of loneliness and alienation – art can tell you the mood of anything. Picture

8. Art represents and questions the declining belief in a higher power – art tells everything. Picture