LEARNING TARGETS: By the end of class you should be able to explain the basic ideas/characteristics of

• The Lost Generation
• American Modernist Poets (and the idea of modernism)

IN CLASS

• Other pre-WWII authors to know
• Read and discussed Hemingway’s “THE OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE”  OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE  focusing on his themes and language usage.
• Selections from modernist poets in your textbook.
  • Bio of TS Elliot and intro to modernism on 644
  • IMAGISTE by Ezra Pound on 657-59
  • The Red Wheelbarrow, The Great Figure and This is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams on 662-663.