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Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai

how a localized tragedy affects the whole world speaker appears to have lost faith in God pain and time - ideas intentionally placed together contrast of death and youth pain of separation through death physical description pain is eternal no peace even after death physical to metaphysical grief then becomes immeasurable tangible to intangible Concentric circles progression from 30 cm, 7 m, two hospitals and one graveyard, 100 km, across the sea, whole world, "circle with no end and no God"

Modernism

Not the same thing as modernity Keywords (I shall elaborate later) Modern Period Modernist movement Expressionism, Surrealism etc A set of movements, deliberations, discussions in the first half of the 20th century Usually, literature glorifies life, but in Prufrock, reader forced to question whether he has one to begin with Fragmentation, fractured existence - not whole, not complete, not holistic Imagination and reality We construct our own realities - they are products of our imagination, which shapes our world Reality is constantly changing as we attempt to find imaginatively satisfying ways to perceive the world Reality constituted by an imaginative process of piecemeal attempts at finding coherence.