What is the major characteristics of Modern poetry?
Modern poetry is characterize by many things .It is ironical, paradoxical , full of tension and ambiguity . Moreover it is psychological .It is traditional as it mixes or fuses past and present,the tragic and the comic.the mythic and realistic.
it also mixes freedom of form (or formlessness initiated by the Romantics) and order or restrain in the poems.
Thus modern poetry is a mixture of classical (traditional) rules as well as romantic principles .
the range is widened to include all traditions and cultures .
Modern poetry attacked the moral values of the Victorians . Modern poets uses free verse and thy are frank in treating sex and religion .M.P marked by allusions and symbolism. It reveals modern man's inner conflict as will as his modern dilemma .
Thus M P is metaphoric,ambiguous,highly symbolic,objective,ironical,paradoxical,traditional and etc...
Modern poetry is interested in the problems which face their society especially war,mechanization,industrialization ,material gains and etc..... .
Modern poetry is concerned with form rather than content. Form leads to meaning (content) .
According to Matthew Arnold "poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic beauty" .By "criticism of life", Arnold means that the noble and profound application of ideas to life" and by laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty" ,he means "truth and seriousness of substance and matter 'and felicity and perfection of diction and manner.
this essay was discussed In the Faculty of languages and translation,under the supervision of poetry stuff members .
There are some other related characteristics
-Formal characteristics
open form,free verse ,discontinuous of narrative ,juxtaposition intertextuality,classical allusions ,borrowing from other cultures and languages.
Formal characteristics
Open Form
Free verse
Discontinuous narrative
Juxtaposition
Intertextuality
Classical allusions
Borrowings from other cultures and languages
Unconventional use of metaphor
Metanarrative
Fragmentation
Multiple narrative points of view (parallax)
[edit] Thematic characteristics
Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties
Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context
Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future
Disillusionment
Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology
Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes
Stream of consciousness
Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century
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Open Form
Free verse
Discontinuous narrative
Juxtaposition
Intertextuality
Classical allusions
Borrowings from other cultures and languages
Unconventional use of metaphor
Metanarrative
Fragmentation
Multiple narrative points of view (parallax)
[edit] Thematic characteristics
Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties
Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context
Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future
Disillusionment
Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology
Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes
Stream of consciousness
Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century
If anyone have another characteristics write them here and we will discuss them together to we benefit
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