1. MODERNIST PERIOD IN
ENGLISH
LITERATURE.

2. MODERNIST PERIOD
 Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the
19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America.
Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional
styles of poetry and verse.
Modernists experimented with literary form and expression.
This style of writing represents a radical shift in cultural sensibilities
of the corresponding time.

3. ORIGINS OF MOERNIST
LITERATURE
This movement was originated when the
writers felt that they required a new form of
writing to express their ideologies and outlook
towards life.
the modernist began, 1910 as roughly marking
the beginning and quote novelist Virginia
Woolf, who declared that human nature
underwent, modernism was already finidshing
at least by 1902.

4. MODERNISM IN
LITERATURE
 Modernistic works are often written in first person and are quite
different from traditional styles. In modernism, the content of the
writing is represented as a long stream of consciousness.
 Modernist writers use irony and satire as tools that aid them in
making fun of something and point out faults, usually, problems
within their society.

5. MODERNIST
CHARACTERISTIC
 Modernism is marked by a strong and
intentional break from the traditional way of
rendering a theme or a thought.
 The concept of modernism denies the
existence of truth. According to this school of
thought, everything is relative.
 Modernists believe that the world is what
we perceive or, in other words, the world is
what we say it is.

6.  Modernism maintains absolutely no
connection with history or historical
institutions.
 According to this concept, life is
unordered.
 Modernism emphasizes on the
importance of companionship between
individuals and celebration of inner
strength.
CHARACTERISTICS…

7. AUTHORS
 Virginia Woolf
 Ezra Pound
 Richard Aldington.
 Katherine Anne Porter..
 Wallace Stevens.

8. A GIRL
The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast -
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.
Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.
A child - so high - you are,
And all this is folly to the world.
Ezra Pound