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    traditional writing and modern writing. David Crystal compares two poems that, were sent into a T-Mobile poetry contest. The winner of the contest has a haiku format, where the runner up had an SMS format. Crystal compliments the winner’s poetry and explains, that a haiku has structure, where the poem must contain three lines that have five, seven, and five syllables. Crystal also explains how this more of a piece of art, and done in the hands of a master this is, “poetry magic” (Crystal 193).

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    Three – Unconscious Resistance A third prominent mode of practice that has arisen through the renewed interrelation between the sciences and poetry is what I describe as unconscious resistance. That is poetry that arguably is written in either a conciliant manner that is working within the concept of epistemological understanding and equality between the fields, or in a manner of co-option. Unconscious resistance appears on the thematic surface to align with and wish to conform to consilience,

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    Whitman's Diction

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    Over the years, the styles and tendencies of writing have evolved rapidly. Poetry in particular has gone through many eras to become what it is today. In the nineteenth century, Walt Whitman was an innovative poet who eventually became one of the “founding fathers” of modern day poetry. One of Whitman’s unique poems was “ When the Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” This poem is a long elegy written in free verse that uses many literary techniques such as imagery, strong symbolism, and repetition

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    American Poetry Modernist poets such as E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, and T.S. Eliot changed the face of American poetry by destroying the notion that American culture is far inferior to European culture. These and other American poets accomplished the feat of defining an American poetic style in the Modern Era by means of a truly American idea. That idea is the melting pot. Just as American culture exists as a mixture of races, beliefs, and ideas, the new American style of poetry exists as

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    Thus, it can be said that Kamala Dass has contributed immensely to the development of modern Indian English poetry. She has successfully been able to assert herself through her poems. She, through her literary gift of poetry, has been able to pour her heart out; as a result of which, we, through her poems, are able to look into her subjective, anguished, tortured and painful psyche which in turn has rated

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    The 1920’s was a period of great artistry, where new forms of art, fashion, architecture, literature, and music were created. One of the new styles of the day was art deco, or style modernes, a style influenced by the technological and economic advances of the decade. The name is short for Art Decoratifs, which refers to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925, where the style was first exhibited. The exposition was one of the world fairs commonly

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    Dana Gioia

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    describes the effects the book has had on the way poetry is now written. Gioia states that Frost’s ballads represent the weakest body of his poetic work. She also considers the language in Frost’s linear narratives as “modern and conversational” (4). Gioia makes visible that Frost typically avoided dramatic monologues. She attributes this to Frost’s tendency to write more modernistic poetry. Dramatic narratives are an important category of Frost’s poetry, and Gioia considers this category the largest

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    Modern Poets: Lazy or Genius? Many people think of poetry as sappy love pieces, or essays to express extreme emotion. The issue with that is you could find an incredible poem hidden in plain sight and pass it off as something else. Besides the fact the poetry isn’t always about love, poetry issn’t always seen in a big book titled ‘Modern Poetry’. What I mean to say is, the best poetry is often hid in plain sight. This tends to happen lot, especially with singer/song writer Ashley Frangipane, better

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    “Let Poetry Die,” argues that poetry is dying, and we should let it. He explains that the public lost interest in poetry because modern poets refused to accept their criticism. This caused the quality of poetry to decrease. Gillespie believes that the solution to this problem is to “[l]et [p]oetry [d]ie [s]o that it can be reborn” (Gillespie 4). Gillespie’s first claim in his article is that poetry is being forgotten by the public. He claims that “as far as the public is concerned, poetry died

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    been producing a large quantity of poetry that would now be considered worthless, eyed a chance to increase their popularity (and sales), catch the spirit of the nation and evoke patriotism (which could sometimes border on nationalism). They felt that you should be willing to die for your country: they wrote poetry that actually glorified the idea of war. It was exactly what the majority of the public in Britain wanted to read, and volumes of patriotic poetry

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