Chооse а Mоdernist literаry work you hаve read (poetry or short story) and discuss how the writer used the primary characteristics of this movement. Your response should be no longer than one to two paragraphs. Use specific examples in your response. Consider the following essential literary qualities writers employed during this era: a radical approach that yearned to revitalize the way modern civilization viewed life, art, politics, and science This dissatisfaction with the moral bankruptcy of everything European led modern thinkers and artists to explore other alternatives, especially primitive cultures. nihilism (the rejection of all religious and moral principles as the only means of obtaining social progress"