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What was the period called?
An era of pessimism
What were the dates of this era?
1914-1945
What was the world upheaval?
- WWI
- Roaring Twenties / Jazz Age
- Depression Thirties
- WWII
What led to America joining WWI?
After the sinking of the Lusitania
What was October 29, 1929?
Black Tuesday (the market crash)
What was Germany's term for the lightening war?
Blitzkrieg
Which two japanese cities was the atomic bomb dropped on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the intellectual agitation?
- Debasement of man (Evolution, Freudianism, Marxism,)
- Deification of man (Humanist manifestos)
What does Freudianism believe?
Give into your natural instincts
What does Marxism believe?
Your value is in what you can contribute
What was the religious turmoil?
- Roman Catholicism
- Cults (people wanted hope)
- Liberal Christianity (Compromised Christianity)
- Fundamentalism
Literature included what?
- Crisis of Belief
- The Lost Generation (group of authors that left America but still wrote about it)
- Social Idealists
- Harlem Renaissance (a Rebirth of African American Art)
Who had a rough childhood in which he was ignored?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Who wrote poetry for a living?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Who was awarded 3 Pulitzer Prizes for poetry?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Who wrote The Children of the Night?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Who wrote Tristam?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Who was America's most popular modern poet?
Robert Frost
Who published his first poem at 15?
Robert Frost
Who earned 4 Pulitzer Prizes in poetry and was the only American to do so?
Robert Frost
Who received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and nearly 40 other American colleges and universities?
Robert Frost
Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"?
Robert Frost
Who write "The Death of a Hired Man"?
Robert Frost
Who wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
Robert Frost
Who wrote "Birches"?
Robert Frost
Who symbolized the "liberated woman" of the 1920s?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who followed traditional forms and rhymes but was modern in theme and tone?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who wrote The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who was one of the most influential experimentalists of modern American poetry?
Ezra Pound
Who rejected traditional form and went after art in his poetry?
Ezra Pound
Who wrote "In a Station of the Metro"?
Ezra Pound
Who was a biographer of Lincoln and Historian of American folk music?
Carl Sandburg
Who wrote works about the working man?
Carl Sandburg
Who made free verse popular?
Carl Sandburg
Who wrote "Chicago"?
Carl Sandburg
Who wrote "Fog"?
Carl Sandburg
Who disregarded rules of grammar and punctuation in poetry?
E. E. Cummings
Whose works are lyrical and satiric?
E. E. Cummings
Who wrote "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm"?
E. E. Cummings
Who wrote The Enormous Room?
E. E. Cummings
Who was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance?
Countee Cullen
Who was raised by a pastor and his wife in Harlem by the name of Cullen?
Countee Cullen
Who rose to fame then became a teacher?
Countee Cullen
Who wrote Color?
Countee Cullen
Who wrote On These I Stand?
Countee Cullen
Who lived with grandmother since father left the country and his mother moved to find work?
Langston Hughes
Who wrote to tell the story and struggles of the common man?
Langston Hughes
Who was the 1st African-American writer to support himself solely through his writing?
Langston Hughes
Who traveled to Haiti, Soviet Union, and Asia?
Langston Hughes
Who was influenced by socialism?
Langston Hughes
Who wrote The Weary blues?
Langston Hughes
Who wrote Shakespeare in Harlem?
Langston Hughes
Who were the Renaissance Poets?
Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes
Who was sent away to school after her mother's death?
Zora Neale Hurston
Who was a writer and an anthropologist?
Zora Neale Hurston
Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and Moses, Man of the Mountain?
Zora Neale Hurston
Who was partially blind from a childhood accident?
James Thurber
Who was known predominantly as a humorist?
James Thurber
Who wrote "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?
James Thurber
Who wrote "The Catbird Seat"?
James Thurber
Who came from a fairly wealthy family?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who went to Princeton but never graduated?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who served in WWI?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who spent lots of money on parties and drinking
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who was a living symbol of the Jazz Age?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whose wife struggled with mental health?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote This Side of Paradise?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote Tender is the Night?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who was one of the most controversial and highly publicized writers of modern times?
Earnest Hemingway
Who joined the Red Cross ambulance corps?
Earnest Hemingway
Who received a medal of valor?
Earnest Hemingway
What country did Earnest Hemingway receive a medal of valor?
Italy
Who wrote A Farewell to Arms?
Earnest Hemingway
Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
Earnest Hemingway
Who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Earnest Hemingway
Who wrote novels, plays, screenplays, short stories, and poems?
John Steinbeck
Who attended Stanford but never graduated?
John Steinbeck
Who won 2 Pulitzer Prizes?
John Steinbeck
Who wrote Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck
Who wrote Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
Who examines her native region of the South?
Eudora Welty
Who was considered one of the modern masters of the short story?
Eudora Welty
Who is known as "America's foremost woman writer of fiction"?
Eudora Welty
Who wrote A Curtain of Green?
Eudora Welty
Who wrote "A Worn Path"?
Eudora Welty
What was the name of the grandma in "A Worn Path"?
Pheonix
What did the grandma get from the town in "A Worn Path"?
Medicine
Who was the grandma taking care of in "A Worn Path"?
Her grandson
What did the grandma take from the hunter in "A Worn Path"?
His money
Which short story/poem had ghosts passing a train?
In a Station on the Metro
Which poem was about the basics of farm life?
Red Wheelbarrow
Which story was Ulgine Barrows in?
The Catbird Seat
Which poem was about enjoying nature, then getting back to work?
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Which man wastes his life wishing he had been born at a different time?
Miniver Cheevy - The Town Down the River
Which man, who seems to have everything, takes his own life?
Richard Cory - The Children of the Night
Which story was Mr. Fitweiler in?
The Catbird Seat
Which story does Silas return "home"?
The Death of a Hired Man
What story was Robert Jordan in?
To Whom the Bell Trolls
Which story does Edwin Martin plan to kill a coworker in?
The Catbird Seat