American Literature Modernism Essay Assignment | American Literature
What is Modernism? Write a four-page essay that answers this question, using examples/quotes from at least five different Modernist writers we’ve covered in Unit IV. How does their work fit into Modernist ideas? What connects these writers?
*Use MLA format (double-space, size 12, Times New Roman, etc.)
*Set aside three hours or so to write the essay. Use your books and notes, but avoid outside sources. *Focus on analysis rather than a mere summary of the works. *Cite and quote any information you use from the textbook.
*Be sure to focus on Modernism by providing a depth of analysis and connections between the stories, poems, and/or the play
Book
The Norton Anthology of American Literature unit II
Amy Lowell: “September, 1918” (728)
Gertrude Stein: “The Making of Americans” (731-734)
Robert Frost: “Mending Wall” (737); and
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (747) Sherwood Anderson:
“Winesburg, Ohio” (763-767) Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar” (782) William Carlos Williams:
“The Red Wheelbarrow” (793) Ezra Pound: “
In a Station of the Metro” (799) H.D.: “Leda” (821)
T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (830-833); “The Wasteland” (Part I: 834-836); and “The Hollow Men ” (847-849
Katherine Anne Porter: “Flowering Judas” (940-948)
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily” (1009-1015)
Ernest Hemingway: “Hills Like White Elephants” (1032-1035) Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1037)
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1119-1181)
*If time permits (these writers are post-modernist era writers):
Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1381-1392)
Sylvia Plath: “Daddy” (1447)
Gloria Anzaldua: “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (1558-1562)
Recommended Reading: Introduction (667-687)
