Resumo de Postmodernism In Poetry- A Critical Article

? Postmodernism in Poetry ? ( By Dr Karanam Rao ) Poetry, among all the other genres of literature, is the one to be heavily impacted by the deluge of postmodernism that not only has changed contemporary poet?s thrust but also his direction. Postmodernist poetry no longer carries with it the burden of the ?usable past?, the traditional accoutrements of theme and form that gave it both filigreed grace and gravitas. Contemporary poetry is essentially confessional-autobiographical in content, and freer in form, and heavily leans on the extensive use of image and symbol to carry the burden of emotive experience. It?s conversational in form and flexible in tone, and surrealistic in intent and vision, but never condescends to be picayune. The ease and felicity with which postmodern poetry takes into its fold the emotional overplus through the selective conduits of image or metaphor makes it at once fecund and finessed. And what matters in postmodern poetry is its altered expression and sensibility in tune with its zeitgeist. Take for instance these lines from the contemporary American poetry from ?Tableau of Nature? by Irene Sedeora: Bolting past me and the molting shrubs A seasonal surprise, the graceful doe Followed by its fawn. In the leafy landscape Squirrels entomb acorns And the wind hints winter As summer languishes- Like a widow grieving.The phrasal collocations like ?the lonely landscape? or ?the grieving widow? placed directly in the contra- juxtaposition precisely presets the onset of winter, and the cyclic return of the seasons is indicated through te carefully chosen images of squirrels and acorns. Everything is forthright, and nothing is implicated here, and gracefully there are no suggestive innuendoes. This austere discipline and the scrupulous cerebration makecontemporary American poetry recurrently graceful and patently embellishing.. 2.. The postmodern poetry isn?t packaged with ornate traceries of emotion which spill over into its surface and deep structures. It?s authentically simple , direct without the involutions of complicated metaphors or symbols that obtrude meaning rather than clarify the emotional experience that is so patiently carried through. Look at this poem where the syncretic power of the poem rests in its? concealing art.? ?The View ? by Chris Francz Philadelphia skyline on the Horizon like little toy buildings Reflecting violets yellow orange From the bitter cold cloudless pale blue February afternoon sky.This is almost the diorama Philadelphia skyline from the CCU of a hospitalWhere the minuscule morphs into the ?inscape.? It?s all done with considerable artistry. And not a word is wasted, and not metaphor is lost sight of. This is perhaps one of the examples to showcase how the contemporary poet compresses he maximal experience, ?the universe into the grain of sand.? Thematically and technically, there is a great deal f experimentation that went on, ?altering the sensibility, and altering the expression? The greater strides tat were taking place in science and technology, in the individual nations societies and economies, and the in the whole process of globalization of cultures, seemed to have pressured the postmodern poet to reorientate his perspectives and his morals. The complexity of postmodernism gets firmly entrenched in its abrasive simplicity of form and brusque idiom of expression Everything is fair in war and love , as it were, and the postmodern poet never shies away in endorsing what he sees as truth incarnadine There is no retreating from the surrealistic pantomime, if the occasion needs it as an inclusive modality of contemporary spirit.

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