Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

1. Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Sherwood Anderson

3. Eugene O’Neill Sinclair Lewis

4. Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men

5. Pre-Text Questions What is the theme of this essay? In which paragraph is it stated? What do you know about the Lost Generation? Is it a term of a literary movement? What kind of writing is this one?

6. What is the function of the first paragraph? How do these writers develop this paragraph? sensationally romanticized treated in a passionate, idealized manner to shock thrill and rouse the interest of people Why a No…more…than…sentence structure is used? the so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation has been more commented upon than all the other aspect bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past nostalgic nostalgia Can we replace questionings by questions?

7. What literary device is used in the two phrases-- nostalgic recollection and curious questionings ? The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young At the very mention of this ten-year, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly and young people become curious and start asking all kinds of questions What has been talked about after the colon? recollection memories further explanations questionings questions deliciously illicit thrill an improper action but very enjoyable and exciting

8. speakeasy flask-toting sheik flapper drugstore cowboy Why do they think the answers to such questions must necessarily be both yes and no ? business affair or matter; process see in perspective to view or judge things or events in a way that show their true relations to one another see things in the right perspective see things in the wrong perspective jazzmad youth

9. it was reluctantly realized…that our country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition some people in the U. S. fully understood, though unwillingly, that the U. S. could no longer remain isolated politically or in matters of social customs and practices. If these people did not state their views openly, at least, they understood it subconsciously. we had reached an international stature we had developed and grown into a nation respected and esteemed by all other nations in the world What is your understanding oftheartificial walls of provincial morality ? What literary device is used in this phrase?

10. we have become a world power so we can no longer, on our action, just follow the principles of right and wrong as accepted in our own country, nor can we remain isolated geographically protected by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In other words, the U. S. can no longer pursue a policy of isolationism. Victorian gentility excessive or affected refinement and elegance attributed to Victorian England The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable. In any case, America could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.

11. the quality or state of not involving personal feelings or the emotions impersonality What features does the American industry have? room suitable opportunity; occasion; scope There is no doubt that your design is excellent, but we believe there is still plenty of room for improvement. After WWI, America became a highly industrialized country. There were big successful factories operating everywhere. Business became huge corporations devoid of any human feelings and the ruthless desire to dominate was exercised on a large scale. In this new atmosphere, the principles of polite, courteous and considerate behaviour and conduct that were formed in a quieter and less competitive age (before WWI) could no longer exist.

12. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure What is compared to a catalytic agent? The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure What does a pattern of mass murder refer to? after the shooting was over, were turned…to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society when the war was over, the young people used their newly released violent energies, both in Europe and America, to destroy the 19th century society that was getting old and becoming unacceptable

13. in America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily. They pretended to live like unconventional artists or poets, breaking the moral code of the community. What is the relationship between this sentence and the following ones? What did these youth do? much-publicized orgies wild, riotous, licentious merrymakings which were often and widely reported in newspapers and magazines Greenwich Village

14. What does the crash of the world economic structure refer to ? the Great Depression How many subjects are there in the second sentence of paragraph 5? the stalemate of 1915-1916 the increasing insolence of Germany our official reluctance to declare our status as a belligerent that our government was reluctant to declare war our young men began to enlist under foreign flags our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war

15. John Dos Passos What can we learn about the youth’s idea of war from this quotation? magnolia-scented fracas a noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel Furthermore, there were…idealistic and exciting. Furthermore, many speakers at high school meetings told the boys that hard life of the war would help to form their character. These speakers convinced more than enough these boys, who were sensible in many other respects, that fighting in the European war would be of great value to them personally, in addition to being idealistic and exciting.

16. Fourth-of-July bombast pompous and patriotic speeches made during the Fourth of July celebrations Why do the authors choose the phrase had been guilty of ? outgrown town and families What literary device is used in this sentence? could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence to resume living and behaving simply and innocently as the former Victorian social structure required them to do

17. Greenwich Village set the pattern. The writers and artists living in Greenwich Village set the example which other young intellectuals throughout the country followed. their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, What literary device is used in this sentence? metonymy it was only natural that hopeful young writers whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center. What are matchsticks and conflagration compared to respectively?

18. misdeeds of the non-intellectuals conflagration a large, destructive fire to intensify and spread this revolt of the young by their own misdeeds fast living in a reckless, wild, dissipated way a group of persons sharing a common interest set Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives Chateau-Thierry Belleau Wood How can we understand the word toy ? Model T Ford Model T 1924 the Dutch Colonial home in Floral Heights

19. Rotary luncheon smug, self-satisfied, conformist in cultural matters boobery repeated, central idea; theme burden the burden of a speech The burden of the volume was…being ignored, The main theme of all the articles in the book was that people were not paying serious attention to what the most gifted and intelligent people (the young intellectuals) were saying, Journalism was a mere adjunct to moneymaking Journalism is only a tool that helps businessmen to make money to strive to get all the material things one’s neighbors or associates have