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Postmodern Poetry
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The Importance of Post Modern Poetry
Post modern poetry, gaining emphasis in the 1960’s, is notable for its different style and thematic impacts compared to its predecessor modernism. It is usually written freely in order to mimic free thought in order to serve as a reflection towards the reader on a given issue. They often feature the issues of meaninglessness or an existential point-of-view.
The Importance of Post Modern Poetry
The Beats Movement & Poetry
Postmodern poetry often reflects the author’s shapeless view of the world, hince the chaotic form. During the 1940’s and 1950’s a group of displeased writers banded to create what we now know to be the Beats movement. This literary movement served as a form of counterculture in a time of political and social unrest. These writers focused on many charged subjects such as capitalism and sexual liberation.
Why Does It Matter?
Postmodernism is an important literary period to study as it recognizes the fluidity of modern society and the changing relevance of media, music, power structures, and global issues. Basically, Postmodern literature and poetry is skeptical of some very traditional ideas that may hold back groups of different cultures, races, or religions, and opens the eyes of readers to the idea that each person may hold their own relative truth.
In other words, one size does not fit all.
16 Postmodern Poems Until Christmas
16. Passing Time, Maya Angelou
15. Daddy, Sylvia Plath
14. All You Who Sleep Tonight, Vikram Seth
13. A Conceit, Maya Angelou
12. And The Moon And The Stars And The World, Charles Bukowski
11. Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences, Diane Wakowski
10. When You Come, Maya Angelou
9. Wood, Richard Brautigan
8. Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black And White, Diane Wakowski
7. People Getting Divorced, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
6. Song For Baby-O, Unborn, Diane Di Prima
5. In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem To See…, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4. Egypt, Kenneth Patchen
3. [I Saw Myself], Lew Welch
2. 1959, Gregory Corso
1.O-Jazz-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don’t Listen To It At Your Own Risk: Bob Kaufmen
16 Postmodern Poems Until Christmas
O-Jazz-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don’t Listen To It At Your Own Risk: Bob Kaufmen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55715/o-jazz-o-war-memoir-jazz-dont-listen-to-it-at-your-own-risk
1
1959, Gregory Corso
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46371/1959
2
[I Saw Myself], Lew Welch
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55779/i-saw-myself
3
Egypt, Kenneth Patchen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=23496
4
In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem To See…, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42861/in-goyas-greatest-scenes-we-seem-to-see-
5
Song For Baby-O, Unborn, Diane Di Prima
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54971/song-for-baby-o-unborn
6
People Getting Divorced, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42859/people-getting-divorced
7
Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black And White, Diane Wakowski
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28675
8
Wood, Richard Brautigan
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31338
9
When You Come, Maya Angelou
https://allpoetry.com/When-You-Come
10
Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences, Diane Wakowski
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28674
11
And The Moon And The Stars And The World, Charles Bukowski
https://allpoetry.com/And-The-Moon-And-The-Stars-And-The-World
12
A Conceit, Maya Angelou
https://allpoetry.com/A-Conceit
13
All You Who Sleep Tonight, Vikram Seth
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-you-who-sleep-tonight/
14
Daddy, Sylvia Plath
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/daddy-56d22aafa45b2
15
Passing Time, Maya Angelou
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/passing-time/