How do I into contemporary poetry?
I love everything from Shakespeare up to Yeats, but once I get into the 20th century, things get iffy for me. Are there some critical works that explains the transition from traditional forms to the experimental, free verse, weirdness?
If anyone can explain the ethos of modern poetry, I'd be interested.
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Everything post 1970 sucks balls
All modernism really did for poetry is allow more variety in form, and most modern poets have works that you can appreciate even if you don't like the more unusual and esoteric stuff. E.g. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Eliot, or The Idea of Order at Key West by Stevens. If you want critical explications, there are plenty: just search for some on Google or Amazon. They'll probably help you appreciate some of it.
I haven't really read much of it, but I'm sure some of it is good. I'd imagine it's just the more popular or famous stuff you don't like.
Just read that shit mayne
Christ, thank you. I haven't read anything halfway decent post 1950's, actually. Do I need to read more or is everything post-modern just really bad? Or both?
you need to get out of your bias of what you think good poetry is supposed to be.
>ethos
modernism initially is a reaction to the "productive nature, passive mind" mindset of romanticism, where modernists promoted a "productive mind passive nature". principally, modernism used "realization" to replace description, so instead of copying the external world like so many romantics did the modernists insisted on its own form of reality, which they attemp to show through an assimilation of imaginitive visbility and the constructed object. modernist poets developed "collage" techniques to realize a sense of immediacy, for example the changing of perceptual to conceptual through the use of syntactic gaps to create spaces between images in order to imagine that the particular run-in with history can have an intensity in the present.
modernism is a postromanticism, and postmodernism is a depature from modernism; postmodernists carried out experimental strategies that modernism ended up shying away from. Lukacs says the art "replaces the concrete universal by an abstract particularity", and postmodernism exposes the poverty of this.
just read ts eliot and ezra pound senpai
try some transtromer.
Read Robert Frost. And don't stop. And maybe some Heaney. And Simon Armitage.
These are Modern poetry, not Contemporary poetry