Modernism+vs+Post-Modernism

Modernist Speaks of inner thoughts and consciousness. Most of these works are stream of consciousness These writers see the individual point out flaws in society Open to vague and ambiguous endings Post-Modernist Rebukes the modern idea that there is a scientific truth to everything Includes irony and wariness General distrust of Grand Ideologies

The Second Coming
By  William Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of //Spiritus Mundi// Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?