The Modernism Period is one of the five American Literature periods. Modernism Started in 1914 through 1945, World War One started the Modernism period and World War 2 ends the period. During the times of the War people were starting to experience shell shock which involved shock or confusion because of the sudden alarming experiences of the wars. Modernism was happening during the times of the Roaring twenties, during that time women were becoming new women. Revealing new clothes and voting for women were being allowed and a new generation of art and music all came about too.
Modernism authors and poets were just like the Realist they both wanted to expose reality but the difference was after the modernist knew about everything they wanted change to happen, they wanted people to take action. Modernism and realism are kind of similar they both depended on science for thoughts and reason. Mental illnesses and the talk about sexuality also started to come about, so people started to question God.
Zora Hurston was a modernism author she wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in this story modernism changes spiritually and socially the theme was to always put your faith in God always and to follow your heart through anything because love and faith can take care of all the bad things in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby (1925), and The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (1963). We are now introducing poets in the modernism period like Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” (1916), Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of River,” and Katherine Mansfield “The Garden Party” (1922). Modernism was a important part of American literature because it changed the writing style in both novels and poetry,
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