Comparing Fire and Ice, Soldiers Home, The Jilting of Granny Weatheral

Lessons from educe and Ice, Soldiers Home, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and Sunday Morning Grasping for stability on the verbalism of a chaotic universe, modernist writers believed that the traditional assumptions about family, war, society, and religion were no daylong valid. Before, during, and after World War I, the modernists displayed the influences of scientific revolutions, familial upheaval, social reform, and philosophical hesitancys. Religion was particularly decimated by the ravages of questioning. This central motivating factor of not only the United States, but the entire world, was intensely scrutinized and oftentimes put away by the modernists, and criticism, abandonment, and reconstruction of religion are evident in selected workings of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, and Wallace Stevens. Frost flippantly scoffs at doomsday predictions in Fire and Ice. In contrast to Frosts assertion of the power of the case-by-case against scientifi c prediction and phantasmal prophecy, Harold Krebs folds under his familys ghostly pressure in Hemingways Soldier Home. Alienated from two her family and society, Granny Weatherall tries to use Roman Catholicism as a slating to Heaven in Porters The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, but she realizes the pointlessness of this goal on her deathbed. As a culmination of the underlying implications of modernist thought, Wallace Stevens embraces a new religious order in Sunday Morning. As opposed to a prodigious and unseeable yearning for the afterlife, Modernism presents the option of a new religious belief in the power of natural and secular reality.In a fewer succinct and profound lines, Robert Frost alludes to two predominant theories of world final stage in Fire... ... and Ice, Soldiers Home, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and Sunday Morning, for the relevance of the these works has not fall over time. With profound insight and acute introspection, the modernists urge the re ader to question the validity of traditional religion, and their disillusioned, alienated, and experimental voices do not soothe the individual into complacency and stagnation. Unsettled and possibly uprooted, a reader must accordingly reevaluate his or her own spiritual odyssey.Works CitedFrost, Robert. Fire and Ice. McQuade 2 1256.Hemingway, Ernest. Soldiers Home. McQuade 2 1159-63.McQuade, Donald, et al. ed. The harpist American Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York Harper Collins, 1993.Porter, Katherine Anne. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. McQuade 2 1056-62Stevens, Wallace. Sunday Morning. McQuade 2 1273-76.