Poetry since 1950 campared to postmodernism

POST-1950 POETRY COMPARED TO POSTMODERNISM

Elizabeth Bishop 's Lullaby for the Cat ' Robert Lowell 's For the Union Dead ' and Sylvia Plath 's Kindness ' differ from postmodernism by using autonomous narrators and clear representation , as well a lack of irony and self-reference . In terms of style , Bishop 's work is the most conventional , with a strict meter and rhyming scheme , while Lowell and Plath use free verse there is no dissonance or pastiche in any of them . Also , they use no obvious symbols and do not convey irony Bishop tells her cat

, Happy days are coming soon -- /Sleep , and let them come , while Plath muses , Kindness glides about my house /Dame Kindness , she is so nice (PoemHunter .com ) Both narrators here appear earnest , and nothing else in the poem seems to contradict this tone

Their themes and s also vary from postmodernism because all three poems use a single subjective narrator reflecting on some aspect of their personal surroundings . Bishop 's short ode to her cat and Plath 's celebration of domestic happiness are deeply personal , while Lowell contrasts Boston 's monument to the 54th Massachusetts regiment to the urban decay surrounding it . In postmodernism , the themes would be less personal and subjective , and the s would be less clear and coherent . Again , there seems to be nothing ironic here , and nothing that conveys fragmentation or incoherence all three narratives take a clear look at their s and their feelings are not ambiguous

Postmodern poetry and prose both reject traditional ideas of form incorporating pastiche and fragmentation in particular , postmodern poetry tends to reject traditional rhyming verse . They sometimes blur together , since traditional formal boundaries blur in postmodern literature , though the individual line retains more importance in poetry than in prose...