Is Yeats 'Among the School Children a Modern Western Literature?
Yeats's Among the School Children was not a Western modern literature. Western modern literature originated from the early 20th century, emphasizing individual freedom, human rights, and democratic values, as well as realism and symbolism. The representative works of this school included Ernest's The Sun Also Rises, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Yeats's Among the School Children was an American literary work from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. It mainly told the story of a teacher and his students, as well as the life and culture of the southern villages in the United States. Although this work also contained some elements of modern literature, it was more inclined to traditional realism literature.
