The Critique of Modernity in Anglosaxon Street and Obasan Earle Birney's sonnet Anglosaxon Street and Joy Kogawa's tale Obasan both present a ground-breaking study of current life, however the previous is conveyed through wry amusingness while the last is depicted through impactful feelings. Advancement in Anglosaxon Street is delineated through incapacitated human inactivity and passionate sterility. Against the background of present day profound liquidation depicted in Anglosaxon Street, advancement completely uncovered its staggering danger in Obasan. In spite of the fact that advancement favors the improvement of human government assistance through expanding profitability and productivity, it additionally has a darker, increasingly evil viewpoint behind its outward façade of human advancement.
