Riches, youth and beauty were the dreams of many when the rich had too much money, not enough morals and when times were terribly tough; these times created Modernism. The desire to become one of the elite was an over-powering feeling for some. However, many struggled with racism, being poor and having to work hard for what little money they got. Frost, Robinson, Hughes, and Welty depict Modernism within their poetry. Modernism was a time of great riches but the great depression, dust bowl, and World War II struck many with poverty. Modernism is a time of ease but also of great struggle.
Life was a struggle for many but especially on the farm, when the work was highly dangerous and death was high. Farm life was terribly hard and high demanding …show more content…
Modernism depicts racism as a struggle for many African Americans who have to overcome segregation. As “they send them to eat in the kitchen, when company comes” (Hughes 843). This shoes how the life’s of many African Americans was a struggle “but they laugh, and eat well, and grow strong” (Hughes 843). They do all of that hard work so “when company comes” again “nobody’ll dare say to them “eat in the kitchen”” (Hughes 843). They have to fight to survive the hardships within racism. However just like surviving hardships with racism, many African Americans had to struggle just to get by. Like in Eudora Welty’s A Worn Path, “Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pin shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps” (Welty 1004). “Phoenix mounted the log and shut her eyes; she had to go through barbed-wire fence. There she had to creep and crawl, like a baby trying to climb the steps” (Welty 1005-1006). She was told “Now you go one home, Granny!” (Welty 1009) by a hunter who thinks that an old African American lady cannot certainly travel that this great distance into town. He even ask her “Doesn’t the gun scare you?” she replies with “No, sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done” (Welty 1010). The way she replies to the hunter shows that she has lived a very hard life just to get where she is now. She …show more content…
To be rich at this time might that your life was easy and excited was there. Just like in Robinson’s Richard Cory, people “thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place” (Robinson 882). Many people thought that Richard Cory lived a great life for “He was rich- yes, richer than a king”, they wanted his life so badly they “cursed the bread” (Robinson 882). People in struggling times wanted to become rich but once rich like in Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald it wasn’t like it seemed. People loved the idea of looks and lust but never want really counted. “He was disappointed at first when he saw Judy Jones had not put on something more elaborate” (Fitzgerald 947). Dexter was almost mad that she had not dressed for him for looks was everything and not being fancy meet there was no excited at that moment. With being rich meant you could do anything you want to do, excitement always had to do be there or the rich would get bored. The excited of Judy Jones intrigued Dexter for “she simply made men conscious to the highest degree of her physical loveliness” (Fitzgerald 948). The riches of Modernism show that excitement to become rich but also the sides of the rich were it was a struggle in its own
Life was a struggle for many but especially on the farm, when the work was highly dangerous and death was high. Farm life was terribly hard and high demanding …show more content…
Modernism depicts racism as a struggle for many African Americans who have to overcome segregation. As “they send them to eat in the kitchen, when company comes” (Hughes 843). This shoes how the life’s of many African Americans was a struggle “but they laugh, and eat well, and grow strong” (Hughes 843). They do all of that hard work so “when company comes” again “nobody’ll dare say to them “eat in the kitchen”” (Hughes 843). They have to fight to survive the hardships within racism. However just like surviving hardships with racism, many African Americans had to struggle just to get by. Like in Eudora Welty’s A Worn Path, “Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pin shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps” (Welty 1004). “Phoenix mounted the log and shut her eyes; she had to go through barbed-wire fence. There she had to creep and crawl, like a baby trying to climb the steps” (Welty 1005-1006). She was told “Now you go one home, Granny!” (Welty 1009) by a hunter who thinks that an old African American lady cannot certainly travel that this great distance into town. He even ask her “Doesn’t the gun scare you?” she replies with “No, sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done” (Welty 1010). The way she replies to the hunter shows that she has lived a very hard life just to get where she is now. She …show more content…
To be rich at this time might that your life was easy and excited was there. Just like in Robinson’s Richard Cory, people “thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place” (Robinson 882). Many people thought that Richard Cory lived a great life for “He was rich- yes, richer than a king”, they wanted his life so badly they “cursed the bread” (Robinson 882). People in struggling times wanted to become rich but once rich like in Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald it wasn’t like it seemed. People loved the idea of looks and lust but never want really counted. “He was disappointed at first when he saw Judy Jones had not put on something more elaborate” (Fitzgerald 947). Dexter was almost mad that she had not dressed for him for looks was everything and not being fancy meet there was no excited at that moment. With being rich meant you could do anything you want to do, excitement always had to do be there or the rich would get bored. The excited of Judy Jones intrigued Dexter for “she simply made men conscious to the highest degree of her physical loveliness” (Fitzgerald 948). The riches of Modernism show that excitement to become rich but also the sides of the rich were it was a struggle in its own