Modern English, which achieve rapid progress in technology and science in modern times bring people to a life of self sufficiency in the food sector, especially Western Europe and North America. However, this period is considered as a period of destruction and kesengaraan as a result of the emergence of two world wars (I and II), and even the threat of the third world perangg still exist. The two world wars have caused ⅔ the world's population are threatened with starvation. Which really belongs to the 20th century are matters relating to the atom, elekron, protons, galaxies and stars. Reatvitas theory and nuclear experts and other abstract ideas to distance people from nature.
Some of the important things that happened in this period is that the British have lost their authority dominant as it has in the previous period. Britain is in the 3rd position after Russia and the United States. The next problem is the English had to face two devastating wars that caused a lot of loss of funds and power, youth and wealth, particularly during World War 2 (1939-1945).
In the half of this century, there is a change in the order of citizenship. "British Empire" turn into "British Commonwealth". This change is not just a name change, Ireland, except ulcers, declared independence as the Republic of Ireland in 1921.
PROSA, not as the 19th century, prose gets a place of honor in the modern period. Some authors began to learn the techniques of writing and story material. There are three kinds of techniques, namely, the technique of "sura" t (Epistolary technique), the technique of "autobiography" (autobiography technique) as well as the technique of "eyes of god" (old eyes). Known figure in this period are:
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), he was born in Poland who have become citizens of the United Kingdom. He was a sailor who has crossed the globe for 19 years to various ports and Asian countries, fasifik and the Americas. Conrad novel usually adventure. One famous work is the human Of Bondag (1915), he tells the story of emigration a young medical student like himself.
Well George Herbert (1866-1946), he loves to show you the fantastic events caused by the progress of science. A work its fantastic is The Time Machine (1955) which tells humans that can be moved to the past or future with immediately by a time machine.
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), a novelist playwright which highlights the life of the English upper class. The most famous novel is Forsyte Saga (1906-1921).
James Joyce (1882-1941), the Irish were published a short edition, Dubliners (1914). His invention was to produce a variant moderndari Odyssey, which menceritakanpetualangan for a day a small businessman Jews. POETRY, in this period were not in the top spot of the UK kesusteraan repertoire. The poets of this period can be divided into two groups, are those which are not so deviate from the standards of the previous century, and those who deliberately rebelled against those standards. His characters are: Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), he was a poet whose poem highest quality. He managed to publish A Shropshire (1896) which consists of 63 words that tell about a young meditation. William Bulter Yeats (1865-1939), he was a senator founder of the national theater of Ireland. In 1923 he received the Nobel Prize for kesusteraan because "poetry emisionalnya consistent, in artistic form the most rigid, and reflects the human spirit". Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot), he comes from St. Louis, he gained Sergeant Rhodes in Oxport. He wrote poetry brittle and hard. One of his works is Ash Wednesday (1930), showed changes in Eliot. Eliot regarded as the most famous poet, one of the protective cover controversial, and perhaps the most influential in the 20th century. DRAMA, In this period drama has developed very rapidly, starting to look back life and excitement in playwriting. The only playwrights of this period are: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), born in Ireland, but since a young age has settled in london. His career as a playwright is also the longest in the history of British drama. One of his works is Pygmalion (1912). The title story is taken from a Greek myth that tells of a sculptor named Pygmalion who sculpt a woman and then she fell in love with the sculpture, then god Aphrodite similar to those pahatanya menjadikanya really live like a human being like. Besides Shaw there are several other playwrights, such as John Galsworthy. Some of his works are The Silver Box (1960), Joy (1907), The Pigeon (1912), and The Forstyle Saga (1967). Besides Galsworthy, author of lyrical drama that WH Auden (1907), Christopher Isherwood (1904), and William Somerset Maugham.
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