2. The Modernist Period in English Literature
occupied the years from shortly after the
beginning of the twentieth century through
roughly 1965. In broad terms
3. MAIN ASPECTS
Experimentation and individualism became
virtues.
Modernism was set in motion, in one sense,
through a series of cultural shocks.
The first hints of that particular way of
thinking called Modernism stretch back into
the nineteenth century.
4. writers who adopted the Modern point of
view often did so quite deliberately and self-
consciously.
5. War most certainly had a great
deal of influence on such ways of
approaching the world.
Two World Wars in the span of a
generation effectively shell-
shocked all of Western
civilization.
6. The assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand of Austria was essentially the
triggering event of the First World
War, a conflict which swept away all
preconceived notions about the nature
of so-called modern warfare.
9. Patience
by: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
A WIND comes from the north
Blowing little flocks of birds
Like spray across the town,
And a train, roaring forth,
Rushes stampeding down
With cries and flying curds
Of steam, out of the darkening north.
Whither I turn and set
Like a needle steadfastly,
Waiting ever to get
The news that she is free;
But ever fixed, as yet,
To the lode of her agony.
10. Comment
The poem “Patience” was a beautiful poem
which talks about a girl who is suffering
because she is not free; maybe she is with a
bad man and she just hope the day of his
freedom. I really like it very much, is
short, but is great…
