Though Frost and Pound eventually returned to America, so did many others, including Hemingway. Still, Stein called all those disillusioned writers, artists, and musicians the Lost Generation, regardless of where they ended up, and Frost and Pound definitely fit in that category. Conversely, Steinbeck and Faulkner stayed home and did not quite fit the definition in the same way.
Using of word "We" too much on movement that strives to refuse almost every concept of affiliation and nationalism, but leans towards individualism instead, is contradictory.
*Modernism* 1910-1930 WWI 1919 Age of Anxiety, Loss, Confusion Shell Shock, Disillusionment Immigration Explosion Automobiles Continue to Flourish 3:47 1920’s Isolationism League of Nations, “The Jazz Age” Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington Alcohol, Prohibition, Speakeasies
One more comment. I see that Robert Frost was lumped with the writers of the Lost Generation. I think that both Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein would consider Frost as a homegrown poet. And although Frost took his family to England for a while but he returned to the States and continued writing poems that were local to his New England experience.
I'm not sure you could prove any direct correlation, but certainly women becoming more independent and demanding more equal treatment in society contributed to the suffrage movement, and likewise the right to vote empowered many women to break down social barriers.
Laurie Harmon I still think it's a stretch. It was reasoned arguments, common sense and a general accecptance that women deserved the vote after their contributions to the war. Tied in with this was the rise of an increasing number of middle income, politically liberal minded people (men and women) that campaigned for political equality. 'Empowered' women who drank, smoked, gyrated and attempted to break social convention via shock did not accomplish anything. It was sensible women with sensible arguments that won through. It's the Suffragette vs. the Suffragist. Nobody talks about Suffragists because they werent jumping in front of horses and starving themselves. They just aren't sensational enough despite the boring, common sense approach actually being the one that actually gained the vote.
Zoom out! Her comment on flappers is not a negation of ALL the contributions that led to social change.She was helping students link the change in social attitudes and the subsequent change in Laws.
Marc g I'm just annoyed by the popular misconception that it was the women who threw themselves around and disturbed society that were the ones who won women the vote. The truth is, it was the peaceful campaigners who used rational arguments and good logic that had the far greater effect. This was women and men. Of course you won't ever hear about that because rationality does not make for good movies.
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We just started this literature period in my college English class. Great video to sum everything up! :)
Though Frost and Pound eventually returned to America, so did many others, including Hemingway. Still, Stein called all those disillusioned writers, artists, and musicians the Lost Generation, regardless of where they ended up, and Frost and Pound definitely fit in that category. Conversely, Steinbeck and Faulkner stayed home and did not quite fit the definition in the same way.
Great explanation, thanks alot.
to be disillusioned is not necessarily to lose your hopes and dreams.
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Using of word "We" too much on movement that strives to refuse almost every concept of affiliation and nationalism, but leans towards individualism instead, is contradictory.
*Modernism*
1910-1930
WWI 1919
Age of Anxiety, Loss, Confusion
Shell Shock, Disillusionment
Immigration Explosion
Automobiles Continue to Flourish
3:47 1920’s Isolationism
League of Nations, “The Jazz Age”
Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington
Alcohol, Prohibition, Speakeasies
One more comment. I see that Robert Frost was lumped with the writers of the Lost Generation. I think that both Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein would consider Frost as a homegrown poet. And although Frost took his family to England for a while but he returned to the States and continued writing poems that were local to his New England experience.
This is very helpful. Thank you! Just a small correction. I noticed that you had the end of World War I as 1919. I think it should be 1918. Thanks.
I fail to see the direct correlation between flappers and women getting the right to vote.
I'm not sure you could prove any direct correlation, but certainly women becoming more independent and demanding more equal treatment in society contributed to the suffrage movement, and likewise the right to vote empowered many women to break down social barriers.
Laurie Harmon I still think it's a stretch. It was reasoned arguments, common sense and a general accecptance that women deserved the vote after their contributions to the war. Tied in with this was the rise of an increasing number of middle income, politically liberal minded people (men and women) that campaigned for political equality. 'Empowered' women who drank, smoked, gyrated and attempted to break social convention via shock did not accomplish anything. It was sensible women with sensible arguments that won through.
It's the Suffragette vs. the Suffragist. Nobody talks about Suffragists because they werent jumping in front of horses and starving themselves. They just aren't sensational enough despite the boring, common sense approach actually being the one that actually gained the vote.
Zoom out! Her comment on flappers is not a negation of ALL the contributions that led to social change.She was helping students link the change in social attitudes and the subsequent change in Laws.
Marc g I'm just annoyed by the popular misconception that it was the women who threw themselves around and disturbed society that were the ones who won women the vote. The truth is, it was the peaceful campaigners who used rational arguments and good logic that had the far greater effect. This was women and men. Of course you won't ever hear about that because rationality does not make for good movies.