Applied Modernism

Why is it that stories or poems such as Fahrenheit 451, Theme for English B, Richard Cory, and The First Seven Years considered Modernist work? It's because they go beyond what everyone else is told to do, say, and even think. In these stories there is some type of departure of traditions, stream of consciousness, imagest, high art, low art, difficult truth, and generational truth. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag was streaming of consciousness after he met Clarisse. In Theme for English B the man was giving all these descriptions about himself and where he is and what he's doing now, that's a great way of imagest. The authors that wrote these stories and poems had the same mind concept and wanted to show it to people around the that you don't need to things a certain way, you can do what you want do, say, or think. These authors wanted to tell people that they're capable of making decisions for themselves and they don't need anyone else tell them how to live their own life, which is the point to all these stories and poems.