I. Answer the Questions

1. Why is World War I a marker more useful in historical than literary terms?

2. What changes in poetry did the war cause''

3. What were the modern modes of expression?

4. What qualities of modem life did literature reflect?

5. What was the primary responsibility of fiction?

Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf

II. Discuss:

1. Why do these authors considered to be key writers of the modern period?

2. What do they have in common?

3. What is the difference between their approaches?

The Thirties

III. Support the ideas:

1. One of the first British writers to recognize that the 20^,h cen­tury was an age of ideological struggle was George Orwell.

2. The economic and political issues were widely debated in literature.

3. The authors of the period adopted and combined the insights of psychology and the innovative techniques of individual predecessors.

4. Many of the writers of this period possessed individual talent and could not be placed within a «school».

5.Modem poetry reflected the paradoxes of experience, it's over­laps and contradictions.

Some Contemporary Poets

IV. Name the characteristic features of modern poetry.

Extension

V.In short essay agree or disagree with the statement that the warfare influenced modern literature quality.