📝 Lecture 08 Feedback – The Modernist Break
📝 Lecture 08 Feedback
The Modernist Break: Gerard Manley Hopkins and H. G. Wells
Reflect on how Hopkins and Wells respond to industrialisation, scientific progress, spiritual crisis, ecological damage, and social inequality.
1. How well did you understand the idea of the modernist break?
1 — Not clear at all | 2 — Slightly clear | 3 — Moderately clear | 4 — Very clear | 5 — Completely clear
2. I can compare Hopkins’s spiritual response to modernity with Wells’s scientific and social critique.
Strongly disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly agree
3. Which concept was the clearest to you?
Sprung rhythm • Spiritual environmentalism • Speculative fiction • Dystopia • Industrialisation • Technological progress
4. Which concept requires further explanation?
Hopkins’s poetic form • Wells’s narrative framing • Modernist experimentation • Ecological criticism • Social inequality • None
5. How do Hopkins and Wells use literary innovation to criticise the consequences of modernity?
6. Which idea from this lecture is most relevant to current issues such as climate change, artificial intelligence, or inequality?
7. What suggestion would help improve this lecture?
Your reflection helps connect literary modernism with contemporary challenges.