For our purposes, we are going to explore the different periods of literary history since 1650 by looking at a few representative pieces. As our focus is Western literary history, we're talking about what is called "Rationalism" or the Enlightenment (roughly from the mid-17th to the late 18th century); "Romanticism" (roughly the late 18th through the mid-19th century); "Modernism" (roughly the late 19th through the mid-20th century); and "Postmodernism" (everything since and the kitchen sink). Here are the links to the pieces for today. As this is only a quick peek at each period, I've only utilized poems, and each is associated with a well-known piece of art from the same period:
1. Rationalism: Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (1681) and Johannes Vermeer, "Girl With a Pearl Earing" (1665)
2. Romanticism: Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself, Section 6" (1855) and Caspar David Friedrich "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" (1818)
3. Modernism: T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917) and Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)
4. Postmodernism: Dean Young, "Undertow" and Serrano Andres "Untitled" (1987) and Born Magazine
What are your thoughts? Which pieces do you find most interesting?
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As I was going down the list of pieces, one stood out to me more than others. "Guernica" caught my eye because I remember back in high school we learned about it in Art class. The piece itself is very interesting but the two I find most interesting are the ones from postmordernism because you have to use your imagination when you look at them. They're not straightforward and they might not even look like much, but the artist had a reason for creating such art.
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