The following text discusses Modernist literature. Modernism, a movement that dominated Western culture in the early 20th century, arose from a sense of disillusionment with traditional values and forms of expression, particularly after the horrors of World War I. Modernist writers often rejected linear narratives and conventional grammar, experimenting instead with fragmentation and stream of consciousness to reflect the fractured nature of modern experience. They sought to 'make it new,' as Ezra Pound famously exhorted.