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Great Myth of Progress
World Wars, Technology, etc.
Out of the disillusionment caused by the failure of the Myth of Progress, especially World War I, many start to question the values that have guided Western humanity up to this point. This includes Religious Values (especially Christianity) and the Classical Values of Greece and Rome that governed public life. Often the poets and writers of this time re-used Religious and Classical imagery as part of their questioning. For instance, Wilfred Owen borrows from Horace the phrase dulce et decorum est pro patria mori in his poem of the same name to question the values of patriotism and whether it is truly "right" to send young men off to die for their country. Not everyone, however, is offering a wholesale rejection of those values. Instead, some utilize Classical and Religious symbols in an imaginative practice to work through their faith, asking themselves questions and posing new situations so they might renegotiate how those values are expressed in the modern world.
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Include Tolkien, Lewis, Eliot, Auden, Yeats (?)