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The Frankness of Nature When in a book I find a pleasant thought Which some small flower in the woods to me Had told, as if in straitest secrecy, That I might speak it in sweet verses wrought, With what best feelings is such meeting fraught!        It shows how nature’s life will never be Shut up from speaking out full clear and free Her wonders to the soul that will be taught. And what though I have but this single chance Of saying that which every gentle soul          Shall answer with a glad, uplifting glance? Nature is frank to him whose spirit whole Doth love Truth more than praise, and in good time, My flower will tell me sweeter things to rhyme. - James Russell Lowell So, that was o

I will explain what modernism is, and I will give examples of books related to Modernism. First, I have learned about modernism in ITL class (Introduction Of Literature). Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is a period or movement, an international movement in European, American, World art, literature, and culture. The horrors of the First World War saw the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed, and modernist writers were influenced by such thinkers as Sigmund Freud a nd Karl Marx ,  amongst others, who raised questions about the rationality of the human mind. Modernism is associated with the era in the middle between World War I and World War II . Modernism has Characteristics, Jazz Age , Great Depression , and Industrial Revolution .  Modernism as a literary movement is typically associated with the period after World War I. The enormity of the war had undermined humankind’s faith in the foundations of Western so