Black poets Robert Hayden Gwendolyn Brooks Audre Lorde Nikki Giovanni Lucille Clifton Rita Dove Terrance Hayes Amiri Baraka Engaged in techniques in the mainstream Rhythm of jazz and blues Easily recognizable Try to involve elements of their native oral tradition "Sunflower Sutra&q...
Confessional poetry Robert Lowell Sylvia Plath John Berryman Confessional poetry emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence. The confessionalist label was applied to...
Deep Image Robert Bly Galway Kinnel James Wright W.S. Merwin Sharply divided the private form from the public and political, is the dead world The return to the countryside Deep inwardness in rural solitude To find place and spiritual, go beyond limitation of your body and individual existen...
Imagism No traditional romantic linearity of meaning No more narration All was broken into pieces Poet catches and describes an image. That image evokes in readers emotions. No depicting feelings but that particular image has to evoke emotions in us. Amy Lowell Ezra Pound H.D. Flaubert “Le mo...
Other” modernists Langston Hughes James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Jean Toomer Sterling A. Brown Women poets: Marianna Moore Edna St. Vincent Milay H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] Gertrude Stein Mina Loy Laura Riching Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer noted ...
Poetry a linguistic object, artifact, understood on the basis of binary oppositions sth artificial, sth made, contrived; not natural romantic poetry - connectionof characteristics, those feeling, poetry spinning of emotions; outcome of inner spo...
Postmodern Poetry Attitude to mass culture Very hard to decide which literary text belongs, to hard or to low Distinction still getting blurred O'Hara wrote many poems about movies, openly fascinated by mass culture Focus on language - it's a sight We are passive We repeat certain patterns A...
Pre-modernist and Early modernist Poets Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868, Garnett, Kansas — March 5, 1950, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Va...
Puritans Very well educated 1620 - “Mayflower” - 28 piligrims - very small group 1630 “Arabella” - more numerous group; John Winthrop - governor of Massachussetts Bay colony; came also 2 families - Dudleys and Bradstreets not very good relation Henry VIII - economic reason - all the wealth,
the Beat Generation a group of young people in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially writers and artists, who rejected the social values of their time. They tried to find a different style of living, becoming interested in eastern religion...
