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Contemporary American Poetry
1. UNIVERSITY OF THE ARMED
FORCES
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
DAYANA CRISTINA TAMAYO
2. CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN POETRY
(1945 – 1990)
TRADICIONALISM
Established forms and diction using rhyme or set of metrical pattern
• Precise
• Realistic
• Witty
• Rhetorical diction
• Fluency
• Verbal pyrotechnics
• Rhyme and meters
• Originality
3. ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
Most influential poet of the period
Uses traditional rhymes, colloquialism, confessional poetry, autobiographical
explorations, technical innovation using psychoanalysis
“Land of Unlikeness” (1944)
“Lord Weary’s Castle2 (1946), won a Pulitzer Prize
“Children of Light” (1946), poem about violence and early work
“The Mills of the Kavanaughs” (1951), dramatic monologues of tenderness and failings
“Life Studies” (1959)
“For the Union Dead” (1964)
4. IDIOSYNCRATIC POETS
Developed unique styles drawing on tradition but extending it into new
realms with a contemporary flavor
John Berryman
Theodore Roethke
Richard Hugo
Philip Levine
James Dickey
Elizabeth Bishop
Adrienne Rich
5. SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
Her early poetry was well crafted and traditional
Late poems exhibit bravura and proto-feminist, brutal directness
Uses a nursery rhyme language
The Bell Jar” (1963), fairy-tale about
“The Applicant” (1966), expresses the emptiness current role of the wife
6. RICHARD HUGO (1923-1982)
He wrote nostalgic and confessional poems, about shame, failure,
relationships.
He focused in the attention of the reader than with inconsequential
details to make more significant points
“What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American ” (1975)
7. ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) and
ADRIENNE RICH (1929-)
ELIZABETHBISHOP
She was interested in remote landscapes and metaphors of travel
She wrote highly crafted poems in a descriptive style with hidden
philosophical depths
“At the Fishhouses”(1955), description of the ice-cold North Atlantic
ADRIENNERICH
Writing poems in traditional form and meter, and metaphors
“Diving Into the Wreck” (1973), evoking a woman’s research for identity
8. EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
The Black Mountain School (Black Mountain College in Asheville, North
Carolina)
Early 1950s
Charles Olson, “projective verse” spontaneity and of the breath pause in
speech
Robert Creeley, “The Warning” (1955), writes with a terse and
minimalist style
Robert Duncan
Ed Dorn
Jonathan Williams
9. EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
The San FranciscoSchool(simple, accessible and optimistic poetry)
Influenced by Eastern philosophy and religion
Their poetries looks to nature instead of literary tradition as a source of
inspiration
Gary Synder, “Above Pate Valley” (1955)
Jack Spicer
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Phil Whalen
Kenneth Rexroth
Joanne Kyger
Diane diPrima
10. EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
Beat Poets (beatniks)
Inspired by jazz, Eastern religious, and the wandering life
Beat poetry is oral, repetitive and effective in readings
Allen Ginsberg
Gregory Corso, “Marriage”, humorous poems
Kerouac
William Burroughs, “The Naked Lunch” (1959)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti “A Coney Island of the Mind” (1958) humorous and
political poetry
11. SURREALISM AND
EXISTENTIALISM
Express unconscious through vivid dreamlike imagery
Introduced symbolist techniques
T.S Eliot
Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound
W.S. Merwin, be epigrammatic
Robert Bly, political surrealism
Charles Simic
Charles Wright, “The New Poem” (1973),
Mark Strand, speaks of extreme deprivation
12. WOMEN POETS AND FEMINIST
Poets had adhered to an androgynous ideal, believing that gender made no
difference in artistic excellence
Amy Clampitt
Rita Dove
Jorie Graham
Carolyn Kizer
Maxine Kumin
Denise Levertov
Audre Lorde
May Swenson
Mona Van Duyn