ezra pound (1885-1972) sherwood anderson. eugene o’neill sinclair lewis
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)Sherwood Anderson
Eugene O’NeillSinclair Lewis
The Sad Young MenThe Sad Young Men
Lesson 10
Pre-Text Questions
What is the theme of this essay?
In which paragraph is it stated?
What do you know about the Lost Generation?
Is it a term of a literary movement?
What kind of writing is this one?
What is the function of the first paragraph?
How do these writers develop this paragraph?
bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past
nostalgic
treated in a passionate, idealized manner to shock thrill and rouse the interest of people
sensationally romanticized
nostalgia
Why a No…more…than…sentence structure is used?
the so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation has been more commented upon than all the other aspect
Can we replace questionings by questions?
What literary device is used in the two phrases-- nostalgic recollection and curious questionings ?
At the very mention of this ten-year, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly and young people become curious and start asking all kinds of questions
The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgicrecollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young
What has been talked about after the colon?
recollection memories
questionings questionsfurther explanations
an improper action but very enjoyable and exciting
deliciously illicit thrill
speakeasy flask-toting sheik
drugstore cowboyflapper
Why do they think the answers to such questions must necessarily be both yes and no ?
business affair or matter; process
to view or judge things or events in a way that show their true relations to one another
see in perspective
jazzmad youth
see things in the right perspective
see things in the wrong perspective
it was reluctantly realized…that our country was nolonger isolated in either politics or tradition
some people in the U. S. fully understood, though unwillingly, that the U. S. could no longer remain isolated politically or in matters of social customs and practices. If these people did not state their views openly, at least, they understood it subconsciously.
we had developed and grown into a nation respected and esteemed by all other nations in the world
we had reached an international stature
What is your understanding of the artificial walls of provincial morality ?
What literary device is used in this phrase?
we have become a world power so we can no longer, on our action, just follow the principles of right and wrong as accepted in our own country, nor can we remain isolated geographically protected by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In other words, the U. S. can no longer pursue a policy of isolationism.
Victorian gentility
excessive or affected refinement and elegance attributed to Victorian England
In any case, America could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.
The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in anycase, inevitable.
the quality or state of not involving personal feelings or the emotions
impersonality
What features does the American industry have?
There is no doubt that your design is excellent, but we believe there is still plenty of room for improvement.
room suitable opportunity; occasion; scope
After WWI, America became a highly industrialized country. There were big successful factories operating everywhere. Business became huge corporations devoid of any human feelings and the ruthless desire to dominate was exercised on a large scale. In this new atmosphere, the principles of polite, courteous and considerate behaviour and conduct that were formed in a quieter and less competitive age (before WWI) could no longer exist.
What is compared to a catalytic agent?
What does a pattern of mass murder refer to?
The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure
The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in thisbreakdown of the Victorian social structure
when the war was over, the young people used their newly released violent energies, both in Europe and America, to destroy the 19th century society that was getting old and becoming unacceptable
after the shooting was over, were turned…to thedestruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-centurysociety
in America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behavingnaughtily. They pretended to live like unconventional artists or poets, breaking the moral code of the community.
What is the relationship between this sentence andthe following ones?
What did these youth do?
much-publicized orgies
Greenwich Village
wild, riotous, licentious merrymakings which were often and widely reported in newspapers and magazines
What does the crash of the world economic structure refer to ?
the Great Depression
the stalemate of 1915-1916
How many subjects are there in the secondsentence of paragraph 5?
the increasing insolence of Germany
our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war
our young men began to enlist under foreign flags
our official reluctance to declare our status as a belligerent
that our government was reluctant to declare war
John Dos PassosWhat can we learn about the youth’s idea of warfrom this quotation?
magnolia-scented
a noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel fracas
Furthermore, many speakers at high school meetings told the boys that hard life of the war would help to form their character. These speakers convinced more than enough these boys, who were sensible in many other respects, that fighting in the European war would be of great value to them personally, in addition to being idealistic and exciting.
Furthermore, there were…idealistic and exciting.
pompous and patriotic speeches made during the Fourth of July celebrations
Fourth-of-July bombast
Why do the authors choose the phrase had been guilty of ?
outgrown town and families
could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families
What literary device is used in this sentence?
to resume living and behaving simply and innocently as the former Victorian social structure required them to do
resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence
The writers and artists living in Greenwich Village set the example which other young intellectuals throughout the country followed.
Greenwich Village set the pattern.
their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility,
What literary device is used in this sentence?
metonymy
it was only natural that hopeful young writers whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.
What are matchsticks and conflagration compared to respectively?
a group of persons sharing a common interest fast
set
living in a reckless, wild, dissipated way
Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry
How can we understand the word toy ?
Ford Model T 1924Model T
the Dutch Colonial home in Floral Heights
a large, destructive fire conflagration misdeeds of the non-intellectuals
to intensify and spread this revolt of the young by their own misdeeds
Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives
Rotary luncheon
smug, self-satisfied, conformist in cultural matters
boobery
repeated, central idea; theme burden
the burden of a speech
The main theme of all the articles in the book was that people were not paying serious attention to what the most gifted and intelligent people (the young intellectuals) were saying,
The burden of the volume was…being ignored,
Journalism is only a tool that helps businessmen to make money
Journalism was a mere adjunct to moneymaking
to strive to get all the material things one’s neighbors or associates have