The Poetry of Postmodernity: Anglo/American Encodings by Dennis Brown

By Dennis Brown

The Poetry of Postmodernity reappraises key Anglo/American poets of the final fifty years within the gentle of debates concerning the postmodern state of affairs. It deals clean serious insights into how their literary contribution provides cogent expression to either the socio-cultural probabilities and the worldwide difficulties of our fresh earlier, our obvious current and our possible destiny. The poets thought of are past due Auden, Ginsberg, Plath, Berryman, Hughes, Hill, Ashbery and past due R.S. Thomas.

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So "Life is waving, the cosmos is sending a message to itself". The final message is the need for spiritual liberation from postmodem technocracy: "0 Widen the Area of Consciousness! 0". Blake is once again evoked against the perpetual materialistic revolution unleashed in the seventeenth century by such as John Locke. "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (1966) is a kind of versified On the Road. Though it is, in many ways, typical of the kind of poetry we associate with Ginsberg, its mode of composition contributed to a more collagistic effect.

H. Auden (Blackwell, 1985), p. 158. See Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden, p. 41. It is interesting with respect to Auden's early sponsoring of Caliban, that Doris Summet's account of the South American, magical-realist "boom" includes the phrase: "Caliban could at last possess his kingdom". "Irresistible Romance: the Foundational Fictions of Latin America", in Homi K. }, Nation and Narration (Routledge, 1990), p. 71. In this book, overall, postcolonial and postmodern writings are seen to be intertwined.

Where "Vespers" tends toward aphorism (that "electric age" subversion of explanation),14 "Compline" represents verse meditation, again in somewhat Eliotic mood. Now the day is over- or nearly so. The poet fails to see "either plot I Or meaning" in the diurnal unfolding: it is beyond neoAristotelian logocentrism. However, Auden uses quite abstract language to confess language's own limitations and announces the return to the "unwashed tribe of wishes" of a night's dreaming. He queries postmodern signification in-itself: Can poets (can men in television) Be saved?

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