Modernism, Masculinity, and Misogyny

Abstract

This paper evinces that Modernism, in poetry, is gendered masculine. Male Modernists coin their artistic theories, which are abrasive, in tune with their misogynistic predilection. These theories adamantly refuse personality and emotions. They vituperate subjectivity and sentimentalism because they are feminine. Since the modern age is threatened by femininity, they promote a kind of masculine writing marked by objectivity, scientificity, impersonality, difficulty, hardness, virility, and elitism.