Modernism:

is a philosophy that appeared at the first half of the 20th century, it lasted after the second world war. This philosophy was influenced by many factors such as the first and the second world war, the great depression that took place in 1929, and the crimes that appeared because of poverty. Human nature was seen as evil. There real life were bad Nightmare.

The characteristics of modernism:

a reaction against Realism

a break with traditional forms

rejects society: traditional values and assumptions

a sense of alienation, of loss, and of despair

emphasis on the individual and inner being rather than the social being

celebrates passion and will over reason and morality

asserts that individuals create the world in the act of perceiving it

discusses the inadequacy of words and language

a movement toward character complexity

experiments with language

a distortion of perception

a rejection of causality and plot; unordered, discontinuous narratives

They were subjective in describing reality

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Poetry became prose-like, and also prose became more poetical

Many of these features are clear in the works of Ezra Bound, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.