The Lost Generation The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise F Scott Fitzgerald The sun Also Rises The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd ID: 488395
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Unit 11: Crisis Years
The Lost
Generation:
Post WWI WritersSlide2
Important Terms
Existentialism –
a philosophy based on the idea that people
give meaning to their lives through choices and actions.Friedrich Nietzsche (“Knee-che”) – came up with “Superman philosophy.” “God is dead.”Surrealism – artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mindSlide3
The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise
1. F
. Scott FitzgeraldSlide4
The sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea
2. Ernest
HemingwaySlide5
3. Ezra
Pound
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Slide6
The Wasteland
4. T
. S. EliotSlide7
“A Game Of Chess”
“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? I never know what you are thinking. Think.” I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones. “What is that noise?” The wind under the door.
“What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?” Nothing again nothing.
“Do
You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
Nothing?”
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“
Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
But
O
O
O
O
that
Shakespeherian
Rag—
It’s so elegant
So intelligent
“What shall I do now? What shall I do?
I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?
What shall we ever do?”
The hot water at ten.
And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.Slide8
5. Gertrude
Stein
A Dog.
A little monkey goes like a donkey that means to say that means to say that more sighs last goes. Leave with it. A little monkey goes like a donkey.ChickenStick stick call then, stick stick sticking, sticking with a chicken. Sticking in a extra succession, sticking in.Slide9
Stein-Picasso Portraits
One whom some were certainly following was one who was completely charming. One whom some were certainly following was one who was charming. One whom some were following was one who was completely charming. One whom some were following was one who was certainly completely charming.
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Picasso (Lines 1-5)Slide10
6. H
. D.
Hilda
Dolittle – poet, novelist, memoiristPatient and friend of Sigmund FreudWas an Imagist like Ezra PoundHis muse and protégé