Finally, the Sea of Faith retreats, withdraws in a melancholy roar. Through this, Arnold creates the image of the "Crisis of Belief," the dark future for the people who have lost the unwavering faith of the past.
Question III.
How does Modernism (as an aesthetic tendency) contribute to challenging the paradigm of Modernity (as a hegemonic discourse)?.
Response.
Modernity describes the rise of capitalism, of social study and state regulation, of a belief in progress and productivity, its critics contend that reason and knowledge are merely used to enslave and control people in alternative ways to pre-modern society, and that dominance of reason has not provided meaning to the world or to spiritual life; humanity appears without purpose and is instead merely striving for change and transformation which produce only momentary satisfaction or meaning. Modern living became about speed, consumption, communication and mechanization; by contrast, modernism marked a clear movement towards increased sophistication, profound introversion, technical display, self-scepticism and general anti-representationalism. There was also modernist opposition to mass culture and feminization. Despite being against the homogenization required by mass systems, modernists were not entirely against modernity, they celebrated the new conditions of production, circulation and consumption engendered by technological change. Literature began to be contemplated as a profession and not just escapist amusement, which brought masculinist elitism and its conclusion that Victorian literature had been "too feminine and moralistic. " .
Question IV.
How 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 secularization; it rationalized the world and brought about a great society shift.
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