English Paper

Modernity and modernism 1900-1945

 Yeat’s poems (“When You Are Old,” “Easter 1916,” “The Second Coming,” “Leda and the Swan”)

Rilke’s poems, (“Archaic Torso of Apollo,” “The Panther,” “The Swan,” “Spanish Dancer”)

 Mann’s “Death in Venice,”

 Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author,”

 Conrad’s  “Heart of Darkness”

Use Yeat or Rilke’s poems and  Mann’s or Pirandello’s or even Conrad’s works that seems to combine some of the works explorations of or assertions about Modernity and explore that aspect of the Modern based on these works and on your own personal observations.