Moderism

Disillusionment

I chose disillusionment because almost everyone these days kinda hides what they feel inside and just want people to know what they are like on the exterior. Some people have the courage to open up to everyone and let everyone know exactly who they are and aren't scared to let them true self out. When I read a book I like to know what the character is actually thinking because it makes the story better. When you know what the character is thinking then you know more about the actual story and you don't spend most of your time over analyzing the story.

Soldiers Home

If disillusionment tells the truth and shows what people truly feel about things then this story was a good example. I think one reason this story is a good example because you get inside the character’s head. You know what he is really feeling and not what he wants everyone to think he’s feeling. In the story Krebs seems kinda sad this quote shows his sadness
"Don't look that way, Harold," his mother said. "You know we love you and I want to tell you for your own good how matters stand. Your father does not want to hamper your freedom. He thinks you should be allowed to drive the car. If you want to take some of the nice girls out riding with you, we are only too pleased. We want you to enjoy yourself. But you are going to have to settle down to work, Harold. Your father doesn't care what you start in at. All work is honorable as he says. But you've got to make a start at something. He asked me to speak to you this morning and then you can stop in and see him at his office."
"Is that all?" Krebs said.
"Yes. Don't you love your mother dear boy?"
"No," Krebs said.
His mother looked at him across the table. Her eyes were shiny. She started crying.
"I don't love anybody," Krebs said.

Krebs just seems like he is a lazy man. He seems like he doesn't really want to grow up, he just wants to be a kid forever. After he returned home from the war he doesn't have any dreams or goals anymore. Its like the war just drained his personality. In the quote above, Krebs tells his mother that he doesn't even love her anymore. Him going to war has drained him of his personality, his feelings and maybe even his soul. He just doesn't care about anything anymore. This story shows the truth about what going to war does to you through a soldiers eyes.

Richard Corey

This poem is showing that you can have all the money in the world and still not be happy. Money doesn't make people happy, plain and simple. So many people envy the rich because they want to be happy like the rich. But what these people don't see is that money isn't everything and it is not what makes people happy. Friends and family are what makes you happy. If the only thing you care about is money then you don't have time for friends and family, you only have yourself and your money. This poem is moderism because its saying that there is more to being rich than meets the eye.

Mending Wall

My first impression when I read this poem was that the wall was some type of hate that everyone has in them. Some have it more than others but everyone has it. Its racism. The character only care about fixing the wall so they wont have to face the true fact that they secretly hate one another. They are hiding behind this wall because they both know deep down inside that they do in fact hate one another. All the want to do is hide it and hiding it is not helping.

A Dream Deferred

This writer of this poem is basically trying to figure out what happens to dreams after they have been dreamt. The writer is trying to get the readers to think about something that doesn't have a true answer. Everyone who thinks about the question "Where do dreams go?" has a different answer than the first person. It is basically saying that there can be no wrong answer to any question, I mean only math questions have one answer, duh.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

The poem is about a black man telling his life. He compares his life to the ancient rivers of the world and all that the rivers have seen through out all this time. He feels the same as the ancient rivers because he believes he has seen all there is to see. I think this poem would be modernism by relation to the Harlem renaissance. Its talks about this black man and how he is lived life and experienced is life just as good, if not better, than a white man.

Incident

This is about a young black boy who moves to Baltimore. He lived there many years and exprienced many things but only one thing stuck out in his mind, when a white boy called his a racial slur. This is definitely disillusionment. It shows how powerful and hateful that word is and no matter how tough you may be on the outside there is that one thing that can hurt you more than anything.