Modernist literature

Literature Reflects Era’s Attitudes A common compliant against Modernist literature is that it is “cold,” inscrutable, unapproachable. While I have to agree that often times Modernist literature is much harsher than that of earlier eras, I think it is an important aspect of the time. Generally arts and literature do reflect the public feelings and situations of the respective time period, or of that which preceded it. So the coldness, although it may seem …showed first 75 words of 1291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1291 total…that their work portray the depression and fear set forth by such loss. If a reader can look at this not as a flaw, but as more of a protective coat against the hardship and turmoil that writers of the time were vulnerable to, if he can get through that top layer of ice, he may uncover the significance of it, and delve into a much deeper work than that which the surface ice blurs.