Edited Copy

Danny Gilham
May 15, 2007
Lit 11 1st period

Modernism Project

1. I really don’t know what Modernism is, I mean I have some kind of clue because I can’t find a good definition or good examples, all I get is a lot of confusing definitions and words. I guess it’s more like old theological tendencies and characteristics. But I picked Psychoanalysis, I can’t find a good definition for this word either. But I got some info from Wikipedia saying it’s a family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud, more like a technique. I look forward into seeing crazy analysis because that’s what psycho means. But it may means something different.
2. This story was very interesting. It was about this man who drives his wife to the hairdresser to get her hair done. Then he realizes he has a couple of errands. So he tries to run his errands before her hair gets done. During all of this time, he has been daydreaming about being the most heroic person ever.
The first day he was a US Nave Pilot flying in a storm. Then he is a surgeon who’s performing a one of a kind surgery. Then in the courtroom he’s a testifier, testifying a case. And then he was in the RAF (Royal Air Force) volunteering for a dare stunt. At the end he is daydreaming about-facing a fire squad.
The story wasn’t really what I expected. I though that the story was going to be about someone analyzing crazy things that’s going on in the real world or wherever they are. In this story you can tell that the writer gave the main character Walter Mitty trends to come up with his own type of environment.
3. Richard Corey- is about a man who is very attractive. He just was all that. People stared at him when he walked down the street. Clean favored, and imperially slimed. He ends up killing himself for no reason. Money cant buy you happiness, that the same example for disillusionment.
Mending Wall- this poem is very good. I like the way they wrote this poem. They used the main word wall but in a million kinds of ways. They used it like rappers use their lyrics, in many ways as they can.
The Negro Speaks of River- is basically the struggle of slavery. How we colored people go through hard time. He is letting the reader know that he is the going through hard time now as he reads this poem. Like the Harlem Renaissance.
Incident- this story is about slavery. About how this man called him a Negro because he smiled and wanted to speak to the man. It shows how whites used to do blacks during the time of slavery. To me I think that this poem fit modernism because it comes from the past. It may mean that he has some kind of problem because Psychoanalysis means a method for mental process.
A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes is good. Its really explaining on how things can go just about any kind of way you put it. Depending on how you take it. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore, and then run? See, when you read this it makes you think about how things can happen in all the ways its possible. I really don’t see how this has anything to do with Modernism. The only way I can say it got to do with modernism is