Modernism

Web Quest
Look for information on the world wide web about the American literature of the modern era, especially poetry. Here are some sites that may help you get started. (Note: links like this may be broken, but you should be able to find new sources using your favorite search engine.)

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5664

Poetry Reading
As we move into the more modern poetry, again explore the fundamental relationships that drive human motivation.

Explore the range of techniques present. Pay particular attention to how these techniques differ from our earlier poets.

WH Auden
“On the Circuit”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15552

ee cummings
“why must itself every in a park”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15404

Wallace Stevens
”The Idea of Order at Key West”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15749

Marianne Moore
“Baseball and Writing”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15658

Gwendolyn Brooks
“We Real Cool”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433

Writing Assignment
At the end of the unit you will submit a summary of the ideas and poetry of all four eras in American Poetry. At this time, you should write a summary of this era. Include the main ideas you learned on your web quest and use specific examples to point out how the poems you studied in this section exemplify what you learned. Be sure to mention the appropriate guiding questions (attached below). Should be about 250-400 words long.