Rachel´s Blog English for my IES students: Cooperative Project on TSEliot - DH Lawrence

Monday, January 30, 2017

Cooperative Project on TSEliot - DH Lawrence - Roald Dahl

BACHILLERATO

Dear Students

The time has come for you to read and analyse some poems by Thomas Stearns Eliot and David Herbert Lawrence, besides we will read The Way up to Heaven by Roald Dahl.

Today you will get organised into 7 groups (I will do it... sorry ; ( )

Once you have the text and questions please start working on it. In 3 days (Thursday and Friday) you will share your information with your classmates. You must use an oral presentation format, you can just talk or use digital resources. The more creative and visual you are the better mark you get.
All of you must read all the texts, it is a must to participate and take part to provide suggestions and different answers for other groups.

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Cooperative Project on

T.S. Eliot ( 1888-1965) D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 - 1930) and Roald Dahl ( 1916 - 1990)

Is historical background relevant for Literature?

Literature can never be separated from the culture.

It reflects the time period in which it was created

WORLD WAR I = CATACLYSM (1914 - 1918)

British & Irish Modernism

The horrors of World War I (1914-19), with its accompanying atrocities and senselessness became the catalyst for the Modernist movement in literature and art. Modernist authors felt betrayed by the war, believing the institutions in which they were taught to believe had led the civilized world into a bloody conflict. They no longer considered these institutions as reliable means to access the meaning of life, and therefore turned within themselves to discover the answers.

Their antipathy towards traditional institutions found its way into their writing, not just in content, but in form

What is Modernism? The following are characteristics of Modernism:

·         Marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. This break includes a strong reaction against established religious, political, and social views.
·         Belief that the world is created in the act of perceiving it; that is, the world is what we say it is.
·         There is no such thing as absolute truth. All things are relative.
·         No connection with history or institutions. Their experience is that of alienation, loss, and despair.
·         Championship of the individual and celebration of inner strength.
·         Life is unordered.
·         Concerned with the sub-conscious.

MODERNISM INTRODUCTION

- Group 1 - T.S.Eliot and the alienation of modern man
TSEliot's life and The Waste Land (1922)
Please provide a summary for these pages and complete the exercises