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Post Modern America 1965-Present Day. By: Katie Eilerman and Siera Swob. Characteristics:. This era was an incredibly positive and optimistic time period. Began after World War II However, there was also fear of: nuclear war no longer any order the rise of middle class
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Post Modern America1965-Present Day By: Katie Eilerman and Siera Swob
Characteristics: • This era was an incredibly positive and optimistic time period. • Began after World War II • However, there was also fear of: • nuclear war • no longer any order • the rise of middle class • Also, the poetry in this period included much: • Irony • Black humor • Playfulness • Temporal distortion • Magic Realism • Paranoia
Authors Rosmarie Waldrop Charles Olson Robert Duncan Nathaniel Mackey Frank O’Hara Susan Howe
Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie is the author of more than three dozen books of poetry. She spent a year in Paris where she met many French poets. While these great poets influenced many of her works, she translated their poems into English where the could be introduced in America. Rosmarie’s honors include: the Rhode Island Governor's Arts Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Citation for Translation, a Translation Center Award, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry and Translation. Some of her poetry books include: Splitting Image, Blindsight, and Love like pronouns. In her poetry, she wrote about everyday life and allowed people to reflect and relate to her poetry.
Charles Olson Was a second generation American modernist poet Most of his works tend to explore social, historical, and political concerns. Charles invented the term “postmodern” in a letter he sent to his friend, Robert Creeley. Some of his major works include:The Kingfishers, Only the red fox, only the crow, and The Maximus Poems.
Robert Duncan He is described as one of the move accomplished, one of the most influential of the postwar American poets. His poems drew on myth, occultism, religion, and innovative writing practices. His childhood experiences shape his poems, and he was encouraged to write by his high school English teacher. He was an important part of the Black Mountain school of poetry Some of his main works are;Heavenly City Earthly City (1947), The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), A Book of Resemblances (1966), Bending the Bow (1968), andAfter a 15-year publishing hiatus
Nathaniel Mackey • He was a poet, novelist, editor, and critic. • He believes music and poetry are closely related. • “I try to cultivate the music of language, which is not just sounds. It’s also meaning and implication. It’s also nuance. It’s also a kind of angular suggestion.” • He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1979 • His major works are;Splay Anthem (2006) and Eroding Witness (1985),Bass Cathedral (2007)
Frank O’Hara Frank was deliriously funny and very moving in his poems He made everyday activities sound better and would make jokes out of them He would take conversations he heard and turn them into funny poems His life was cut short by a dune buggy accident Some of his poems include: A Note to Harold Fondren, A Step Away from Them, and A Wreath for John Wheelwright
Susan Howe Susan is an American poet, scholar, essayist and critic. She is closely associated with the Language Poets, which is a group of poets who emerged in the late 1960’s. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional ideas of genre (fiction, essay, style and poetry). Many of Howe's books contains poetic echoes of sound, but is not pinned down by a consistent poetic rhyme scheme. She is the recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Some of her major works include: Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979,and The Midnight.
Major Works As the Dead Prey Upon Us-Charles Olson A Little Language-Robert Duncan The Round World-Rosmarie Waldrop In Favor of One’s Time-Frank O’hara Soonest Mended-John Ashbery
As the Dead Pray Upon Us This poem uses a variety of stanza patterns. It really shows Olson’s strategies for writing. This work is a projective poem about living, death, the mind, relationships, history and politics, war, and conflict.
A Little Language This poem was a very distinct one for him. It related to him in a lot of the ways that all of his poems do, but really captured the subjects of the postmodern time period. This poem was about religion, pets, animals, relationships, nature, language and linguistics, and art and sciences.
The Round World In this poem, Rosmarie Waldrop created an illusion with her spacing and her words. She used spaces to emphasize the poem and dramatize it. In the poem she talks about how the eye’s can see what is truly there and looking out our own eye may even be what is best or may be a habit.
In Favor of One’s Time In this poem, Frank speaks of the stages of life and holds an allusion in the bible speaking of Jacob. Frank O’hara talks about how we live outside His garden and how we await to be with him. He thinks that living isn’t the greatest adventure we have had or are having, it is when we become with Him. He explains how we don’t remember the marvelous memories when we die, but will have more memories being with Him.
Soonest Mended In this poem, John Ashbery talks about the minorities in America. In his mind, minority refers to the amount of power held in American society. It includes people of all different races and ages with distinct jobs and ways of life. He compares it with the majority, which include social leaders and the government. Also, he talks about how technology is corrupting American life and how American’s, by using this technology, are feeding more and more power into the “leaders”.
What I will By Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was alive once hunted stolen stretched. I will not dance to your drummed up war. I will not pop spin beak for you. I will not hate for you or even hate you. I will not kill for you. Especially I will not die for you. I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide. I will not side with you nor dance to bombs because everyone else is dancing. Everyone can be wrong. Life is a right not collateral or casual. I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing. Our humming will be drumming. I will not be played. I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat. I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum ain't louder than this breath.
Analysis Title-What I will Author-Suheir Hammad Style-very personal, follows a certain rhyme, instead of stanzas she uses broken sentences Devices-metaphor, similes, imagery POV-First person Both implied and literal meaning
Analysis Implied Literal It shows how the speaker wants to go against the people who hold greater power, she wants to rebel against them. She wants them to know that they don’t have control over her and that she can hold her own. She uses the phrases “I will” and “I will not” to emphasizes exactly what she wants to do and doesn't want to do. Hammad illustrates how the people of her Middle Eastern heritage(Israel) were fighting the US with suicide bombings, killing innocent men, woman, and children. She is showing that she will resist them and how wrong it is for them to be doing that. The "war drum" Hammad mentions throughout the poem symbolizes the continuous violence that was happening in the middle east.
