Post modernism definition What is a post modernism definition?

Postmodernism is an attempt to rethink the cultural landscape with theories taken from linguistics, psychiatry, continental philosophy, and leftwing politics. Postmodernist poetry tends to be a cotery art fragmentary, solipsist and provisional, opposed to the 'great themes of art' and indeed to saying anything definite. There probably is no post modernism definition per se: anything goes. Contemporary poetry may be visually attentive, apocalytic, tender, romantic, confessional, or whatever it pleases.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Postmodernist techniques To many readers, Postmodernist poetry is not poetry at all, and they are not to be persuaded by any post modernism definition. Yet its styles are simple and indeed enjoy a distinguished ancestry. Cultivation of inward states of mind is a Symbolist legacy. Imagery drawn from a contemporary, sometimes tawdry urban, setting derives from Modernism. Ezra Pound's Cantos replaced stanzas with rhythmic phrasing. William Carlos William's poems ('chopped up prose') employed everyday language, breaking lines arbitrarily for unusual effects. The Black Mountain School phrased their lines on a natural tendency to draw breath. Concrete poetry and experimental layouts go back to Apollinaire's Calligrammes. And so on: Postmodernism is perhaps only a step towards a more consumerist and proletarian view of the world.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Postmodernist themes As is shown more clearly in the visual arts, Postmodernism is iconoclastic, groundless, formless and populist. What does that mean? An introduction to John Ashbery and J.H. Prynne is given in PoetryMagic's Advanced section, but you'll need to consult the PoetryMagic Professional section for argued theory with references. Of course, you may prefer to simply read the poetry, which you'll find in the periodicals and newspapers listed under the Book News sidebox. Though classified simply as contemporary, you'll find many of the poems in Electronic Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, Light and Dust Anthology or the magazines listed by PoetryKit and The PoetryMachine exhibit Postmodernist techniques, even if their content can be fairly traditional.
POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism in poetry begins with the urge to return the political, ethical, historical; to incorporate the sociological, anthropological, pyschological, psycho-historical, indeed a vast gamut of social sciences and humanities material; as well as the physical and

biological sciences into the domain of poetry. The poem to the postmodernist is an expression of the narrative and the educative, the serious and the comic, verse and prose. In postmodernist poetry the cry of the heart, as Yeats called it, is being subjected to the play of the mind and all the worlds complexities. This postmodernist poet also paints a great deal of religion and philosophy on his canvass, especially his own religiophilosophy, the Bahai Faith. -Ron Price with thanks to Marjorie Perloff in Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism, Charles Altieri, Cambridge University Press, NY, 1989, p.381. Constantly amalgamating disparate experiences, as if a thought was itself an event to record, a mechanism of sensibility devouring life, devouring it, here, on these pages, making the visible, visible, searching for an articulation of a new plane of understanding, bringing in all that reading, endless reading, hour after hour, until your eyes could take in no more, could stand it not another minute, while outside cold winds tore into the snow, hot sands blew against spinifex and rain poured endlessly in the rainforest. Then came the burnout, as if the brain went on shutdown, and wandered into black-holes of darkness so intense that even the body could not move: a rest was required. And now it seems the work can go on until the final hour, at last.1