Modernism and Realism

Modernism and realism were both literary time periods. Realism came first and was much earlier than Modernism. Realism was obviously, just from sounding out the name, was about being real. The authors did their very best to accurately portray the world and feelings of people. At the time it was pretty radical because before then the hero had always been a perfect person but now writers were talking about how the hero had doubts, fears, and flaws as well. People were pretty creeped out by it at first because the people they looked up to were just like them, flawed.Modernism came much later and was pretty similar. Modernism was similar to realism in a few ways. One of them was how radical the idea was at the time. Modernism took ahrsh views on the institution and how it was bad or wrong. Something that was pretty unheard of at the time. It challenged the idea a that government was above reproach from literature. As far as ideals go realism and modernism do not have a lot of the same characteristics but there are a few traits that a re pretty similar, like how both type of literary writing were so radical because they showed things as they were. They did not gloss over things, the did not exaggerate things. Realist accurately portrayed the human hero and modernists accurately portrayed the government and it's shortcomings. Other than that I do not see a lot of similarities between the two genres. One was all about the individual person and their flaws while the other was all about the government or groups flaws. Modernists also had a very sadistic view on the group, or humanity as a whole. People like Hemingway who wrote about what they a saw as humanities issues. Modernism was pretty cool int hat it changed poetry so that it no longer was required to rhyme you jut needed to pick the right words at the right time in the poem for it flow smoothly and that was really all people were looking for. As opposed to realism where if it was called poetry it had better rhyme. I personally prefer rhythm poetry as I think poetry is for cadence and rhythm while story telling and books are more of what modernism is. I really do not think some of the poems that were written are even poems so much as they were observations. But that is just me being technical. I overall do not think they had any massive similarities just a couple tiny incidents and stuff like that. If I had to choose I would say i like realism better because of the rhyming obviously and modernists poems are so depressing and are written by people who feel the need to criticism everything. But yeah I guess some modernism is ok but not to much, because like the saying always goes " to much modernism is a headache and a bulging vein waiting to happen" That is how i have always been told though i suppsoe some people do not get the same quotes form heir mothers