Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Journal of Media Culture and Literature , cilt.1, sa.2, ss.45-54, 2015 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study explores the transformation of Paris and its effect on the new movement Symbolism which influences American modernism. This movement is explained through the works of Charles Baudelaire who has an enormous impact on T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Since symbolism was the only movement that modernist writers of America found close to their era. They could not break off; on the contrary they took some essential parts of it which was a main source of inspiration.Therefore, as a symbolist poet, Charles Baudelaire influenced T.S. Eliot and like Baudelaire T.S. Eliot focused on the brokenness and falseness of modern experience and he found symbolism close to his era, therefore he took some essential parts as an inspiration. For this reason, the influence of symbolism on Modernist literature cannot be ignored.
Keywords: Modernism, Symbolism, Brokenness, Falseness, Modern
Experience, Modernist Literature, Transformation