This paper evinces that Modernism, in poetry, is gendered masculine. Male Modernists coin their artistic theories, which are abrasive, in tune with their misogynistic predilection. These theories adamantly refuse personality and emotions. They vituperate subjectivity and sentimentalism because they are feminine. Since the modern age is threatened by femininity, they promote a kind of masculine writing marked by objectivity, scientificity, impersonality, difficulty, hardness, virility, and elitism.
This article is a critical reading of Mornings in Jenin by the Palestinian refugee author Susan Abulhawa. This historical novel, which fuses fiction, history, and journalistic details, depicts the experience of exile, the unbearable feeling of rootlessness, and the trauma inflicted by Israel who commits heinous crimes against the Palestinians and their land. By telling the story of four generations of a Palestinian family, Mornings in Jenin, which is a real epic narrative, evinces the Palestinians' harsh experience of displacement and eviction from their homeland and their dream of returning. The novel is a very good portrayal of the grave psychological and physical effects of Israel's conquest. As novels about the Palestinian cause are very few, Particularly in English, this novel is written as a reaction to the Jewish narrative that has long dominated literature. The novel is written in English in order to reach the entire world and to help it learn about the Palestinian cause.
In T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", there is a quest for psychological and spiritual unity, which is vindicated in the poem's pattern of a spiritual journey. Reading the poem as such provides the reader with a tie thatbrings together its fragments, albeit being said to be formless. As the paper shows, the ultimate panacea to thepsychotic's problems is believed to hinge on religion. Such a remedy makes possible the unity of the modern man's fragmented self in an age marked by spiritual sterility and sexual promiscuity. Therefore, religionemerges asthe fructifying power that can restore fertility to the spiritual aridity of modern civilization. Despite his theory of impersonality, the poem also addresses Eliot's religious questioning and quest.
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