... does the radical break and innovative form of Aesthetic Modernism contribute to the paradigmatic crisis of the time? And how does this translate into the poems (discussed in class) of either Yeats of Eliot? Response Modernity can be understood as life after the changes brought by industrialization, urbanization and ... describe the current historical moment. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." His poem was published after World War I, when he thought society had broken down and fallen apart, and it reads as a prediction of a dark future. He interchanges the biblical symbols with ...

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... feat of looking beyond even them. Along with the Industrial Revolution arose the belief that mechanical principles governed all phenomena, from the movement of the planets to the beating of a heart. By the nineteenth century, the major scientific thinkers, following Descartes, were proclaiming that all of nature was one vast machine. As a result, the distinction between the living and the dead ... , is refused by the De Laceys. In his misery the creature reverts to raw nature stating, "I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings. I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destr...

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