So while I am not an expert on poetry as I am on novels, it is certainly a genre I am interested in. Poetry honestly used to be a big thing back in the day. And by the day, I mean before the fifteen hundreds. The reason why most storytellers used poetry over prose during these times was that poetry is easier to remember. Bards would memorize entire stories and recite them to an audience, and let me tell you poetry is a whole lot easier to memorize than novels.
It has rhythm and rhyme at least, it did, but we will be getting to that later. Currently, poetry is not half as big as it used to be.
Many poets struggle to make any money out of their work, much less a career. There are certain authors, of course, who publish books as well as the rare collection of poetry like Neil Gaiman , and there are also those poets who have a different full-time job and work on their poetry on the side.
However, to have famous poets such that we saw in the Victorian Era or Elizabethan era are gone. Poetry anthologies sell very poorly in the modern day unless it is a reprinting of some classic poet like Robert Frost. I am not saying it is impossible to be a poet in the modern day; it is just not as popular a literary medium as it was once.
Why is that? Have people changed their interest? Or is it poetry itself which has changed? This brings me to the topic at hand. That is, how has poetry changed from the poems of a century or more ago to now?
I was not exposed to any modern poetry until I entered college. And I noticed several massive differences. The first being: form. If you read a lot of older poetry, you will see patterns of form. Every line can rhyme with the one before it, or every other line, or even every third line.
Poets used things like iambic pentameter to give even more rhythm. In a sense, classic poetry is like a talking song. That is not the case in modern poetry. The emphasis is much more on emotions, feelings, and messages the poet wishes to get across. I will just give the first stanza. You will notice he used both interior rhyming dreary, weary and napping, tapping and ending rhyming lore, door. It gives a haunting aura and uses formal language.
Even if it follows rules, however, Poe uses this constriction to his advantage by making this poem beautiful. Keep in mind, this is still a rather old poem, but there is a century separating it from my previous entry. It is an interesting piece, I agree, and a funny story.
Williams has ridden his poem of rhyming, capitalization, and even punctuation. His language is simply clear. While I smile at this poem every time I read it, I cannot in my right mind say it is beautiful.
I could write this poem easily and I am not anywhere near to being a poet. It does not have any depth into the human soul. It is simple. The line breaks are random. Poetry is one of the oldest forms of literary art. Preliterate societies used rhyming verse as a method to make stories and passages of history easier to remember. These verses were passed from one generation to the next as oral narratives.
Some of these were eventually written down and have survived to this day. Epic tales such as Beowulf and The Odyssey were originally written in verse, influencing later poets such as Dante and John Milton. The multiplicity of styles is the characteristic of modernist poetry. Published on 23 Jan. Toggle navigation. What is Modernist Poetry? The word 'modern' and even 'modernism' are very vague terms whose precise meanings are hard to pin down.
Who is the father of modern poetry? Geoffrey Chaucer. What are the elements of modern poetry? Of Modern Poetry Literary Elements.
Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View. Who are dominant poets of modern age? English-language Modernist poets. Marion Angus. What is Imagist poetry? What is a modern novel? Is the poem set in the 20th century?
What is poetry in English? How is frost a modern poet? What are 5 characteristics of modernism? The Main Characteristics of Modernist Literature. What are features of modernism? What is an example of modernism? What are the main ideas of modernism? What is the modern period of literature? What are the 2 main characteristics of modernism art? What are the characteristics of a literature?
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