Katherine March 22, 2018
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/pm_poetry.html
Postmodern Poetry
“Superior Lake” by Lorine Niedecker as an Example
- Conte, Joseph M. Unending Design: the Form of Postmodern Poetry. Introduction.
- McCorkle, James. ¡§The Inscription of Postmodernism in Poetry.¡¨
Language | Self | Modernism | Postmodernism |
General concepts about serial & procedural forms | Serial form | Procedural form | “Lake Superior” |
Taiwanese Postmodern Poetry (an Outline in Chinese)Louise Chen, 11/26/1998
Postmodern poetics respond to the condition of the world. In an age of instant telecommunications and metropolitan life, the postmodern serial and procedural forms attempt to accommodate the overwhelming diversity of messages and the lapse of a grand order that is replaced by an arbitrary personal order.
I. Language
A. In postmodern poetics, there is a paradigmatic shift from the idea that language is
transparent to the disclosure of its physicality, its intimacy, its obdurate persistence, and its
paradoxical fragility. (M 43)
B. Reader¡Xpoem:
The reader’s position is contingent upon the poem and the poem¡¦s existence hinges upon
the reader and the varieties of knowledge the reader brings to the poem¡KThe adequation of
thing and sign has lapsed with the realization of the arbitrary condition of language. (M 43)
II. Self
A. Contemporary poetry:
1. Contemporary poetry positions its perspectives from a persona (who is often autobiographic) within a defined narrative structure.
2. Contemporary poetry avoids self-criticism and establishes itself as a singled unified voice. (M 48)
B. Postmodern poetry:
1. Postmodernist poetics suggests an ongoing reinterpretation of the self in the context of others. It specifically investigates the ethical-or self-critical capacity of language and its relationship to identity. (M 46)2. The critique of the privileged and entitled ¡§I¡¨ is central to postmodern poetics. While not a wholesale endorsement of many theoretic claims to he death of the author or the abandonment of intention, postmodern poetry nonetheless insists on a re-visioning of the authorial voice and its reception. (M 46)
I agree with Janet – the image is lovely 🙂
Thank you very much,Mike.I appreciate your opinion.I can remembe sitting feeling nervous but when I look now it’s better than I thought.Katherine.
It might even get me back to my paints
Thank you – I love the image in this post:). stay warm xxx
I am pleased you like it Janet,I hope you are warm and welllXxxx
I am and I hope the same is true for you. keep washing hands, etc. :)XXX
I shall look forward to reading your own “fabrication,by arrangement of discontinuous and mobile elements-or their resistance to a determinate order”
So shall I.But they also say the author does not exist; from that it follows they don’t exist as they keep writing
Just look at the image
Even I find it hard
After VERY careful study of the link you posted and extremely DEEP concentration, I can offer my post-modern contribution:
Great, once
tea for some
planted in rows
drowned in Boston
once fair rose
Britain lost
(C) Mike 🙂