Modern Writing Dark and grim descriptions of life fill the lines of modernist poems. Modernists writing often describe scenes of loneliness and desolation. The souls of modern writers are empty and separate from the rest of the world. They rarely write about happiness and freedom. The disturbing passages of modernist authors can be credited to feelings of loneliness and alienation. In a poem by Robert Frost, Acquainted With the Night, a rainy street sets the …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…to entertain others but to tell others how she viewed her role in life. The miserable verses of modernist poets put into words the most depressing emotions of loneliness, desolation, and emptiness a soul could feel. When writing these passages, the poets poured out their souls onto paper and, in the words of Prufrock "threw their nerves on a screen." Modernist writing can be recognized as depressing descriptions of the most distressing aspects of life.