Prior to the 20th century the world lived a transcendentalist time period, a idyllic place and paintings would include the aesthetic grasp of nature, and a painting emanating a positive vibe, then an abrupt turn to chaos came upon Americans and paintings went from nature to humans in agony , poisonous orange backgrounds and negative vibes, this period is known as Modernism. Scientific innovation, industrialization, and world war I are all factors that which led to the dismantling of Transcendentalism and the creation of Modernism. Nature was the focal point in the world at first, then the factories and industries took over the beautiful planet. This eventually caused the joyfulness of literature to decrease and become more bleak , reproducing
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In the poem, “ The hollow men” ,T.S eliot's use of confounding diction shows the downfall of man’s thoughts and lack of confidence in man. In the beginning, he says that man together whispers but its “ quiet and meaningless” and have “ eyes I dare not meet in dreams” (Eliot ). He is saying that the words man speaks are pointless showing how theres no confidence in their beliefs anymore and his eyes are not even reliable also showing the lack of confidence in man. words such as meaningless marginalizes man’s ideas and further emphasizes how there is no confidence in man. Towards the end of the story, showing the loss of all hope , he repeats “ this is the way the world will end “ and says “ Not with a bang but with a whimper” ( eliot) . All hope is lost and the meaningless ideas of man is the way the world will end. All the disproved ideas of man caused humans to become hopeless beings with no …show more content…
In the beginning of the poem, he begins to expound on how his day was long and weary, saying it was “ The burnt-out ends of a smoky day” (Eliot). He also describes how It was long works days and Eliot’s tone shows how intricate the new found industrial life was. Not only does he show how long works days were, but he also shows difficult the work life was saying they worked behind “dingy shades” in “a thousand furnished room”(eliot). When placed in bad working conditions, people are brought down and work production decreases because all the happiness and motivation are drained . Towards the end of the poem, he makes a reference to the of the revolving of the world saying it “revolves like a ancient women, gathering fuel in a vacant lot” (eliot). He feels like the world is a comparison to a elderly woman looking for motivation to go on in a vacant space. He believes the world is hopeless. His reiterated tone tone of despair in describing the world appears all over in literature because all people began to believe that the world is
In the poem, “ The hollow men” ,T.S eliot's use of confounding diction shows the downfall of man’s thoughts and lack of confidence in man. In the beginning, he says that man together whispers but its “ quiet and meaningless” and have “ eyes I dare not meet in dreams” (Eliot ). He is saying that the words man speaks are pointless showing how theres no confidence in their beliefs anymore and his eyes are not even reliable also showing the lack of confidence in man. words such as meaningless marginalizes man’s ideas and further emphasizes how there is no confidence in man. Towards the end of the story, showing the loss of all hope , he repeats “ this is the way the world will end “ and says “ Not with a bang but with a whimper” ( eliot) . All hope is lost and the meaningless ideas of man is the way the world will end. All the disproved ideas of man caused humans to become hopeless beings with no …show more content…
In the beginning of the poem, he begins to expound on how his day was long and weary, saying it was “ The burnt-out ends of a smoky day” (Eliot). He also describes how It was long works days and Eliot’s tone shows how intricate the new found industrial life was. Not only does he show how long works days were, but he also shows difficult the work life was saying they worked behind “dingy shades” in “a thousand furnished room”(eliot). When placed in bad working conditions, people are brought down and work production decreases because all the happiness and motivation are drained . Towards the end of the poem, he makes a reference to the of the revolving of the world saying it “revolves like a ancient women, gathering fuel in a vacant lot” (eliot). He feels like the world is a comparison to a elderly woman looking for motivation to go on in a vacant space. He believes the world is hopeless. His reiterated tone tone of despair in describing the world appears all over in literature because all people began to believe that the world is