Analyzing Lost Generation Artwork: Directions: For each of the following pieces of artwork, explain how the might reflect the lost generations. Next, explain your reaction to each work of art.

Dora Maar with Cat by Pablo Picasso (1941) How does this reflect the Lost Generation? What is your critique of this work?

The Hollow Men (excerpt) by T S Eliot (1925) We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar      Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. III This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.      Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.                            V    This is the way the world ends     This is the way the world ends     This is the way the world ends     Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Face of War by Salvador Dali (1940) How does this reflect the Lost Generation? What is your critique of this work?

Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon (1918) I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. 

All Quiet on the Western Front (Excerpt) by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) Click on the Picture!!! How does this reflect the Lost Generation? What is your critique of this work?