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Modern Poetry

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Modern poetry refers to a diverse range of poetic forms and styles that emerged in the late 19th and 20th centuries, characterized by a break from traditional structures, experimentation with language, and exploration of new themes, often reflecting the complexities of contemporary life and individual experience.
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Modern poetry refers to a diverse range of poetic forms and styles that emerged in the late 19th and 20th centuries, characterized by a break from traditional structures, experimentation with language, and exploration of new themes, often reflecting the complexities of contemporary life and individual experience.

Key research themes

1. How do contemporary poets and critics address identity, social justice, and postcolonial perspectives in modern poetry?

This theme investigates how modern poetry engages with questions of ethnicity, diaspora, feminism, social change, and marginalized identities. It emphasizes poetry’s role in articulating social critique, embodying cultural resistance, and advancing political consciousness within and beyond traditional literary canons. The studies explore intersectionality, decolonial poetics, and innovative formal experiments that reflect twenty-first century concerns about race, gender, and global capitalism.

Key finding: Yu’s anthology and its review elucidate twenty-first-century American poetry’s commitment to ethnic diversity and social critique, revealing how poets such as Nikky Finney and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge deploy phenomenology and... Read more
Key finding: Adimora Ezeigbo’s poetry functions as both social critique and utopian vision within postcolonial Nigerian contexts, using imagery and metaphor to expose migration’s human toll while proposing moral responsibility and... Read more
Key finding: Shera’s poetry, rich in allegory, metaphors, and mystical ecstasy, expands modern Urdu poetry’s thematic and stylistic range by interweaving Islamic historical, Quranic, and neohistoricist elements. Despite her complexity and... Read more
Key finding: Habib’s poetry captures a post-revolutionary Bangladeshi existential crisis marked by fear, disillusionment, and social rupture, conveyed through potent imagery and skepticism about poetic efficacy. His thematic focus on... Read more

2. In what ways is modern poetry innovating through digital media, archival practices, and philosophical questioning in the 21st century?

This theme explores the intersections of digital culture, archival restoration, and poetic form, highlighting emergent modes such as Instapoetry and digital poetics. It focuses on how early digital fragments, philosophical queries, and AI interactions shape contemporary poetic sensibilities and dissemination, revealing a shift in authorship, anonymity, and lineage in poetry’s evolution amidst technological advances and cultural shifts.

Key finding: This archive reconstructs indie digital poet Javier Rhoden’s foundational role in the Instapoetry movement through metadata and stylistic forensics, establishing that Rhoden’s early spiritual and fragmented poetic questions... Read more
Key finding: Rhoden’s early poetic interrogations reflect foundational motifs that underpin digital poetry’s widespread cultural voice, probing ontological and metaphysical themes via succinct, enigmatic queries. This collection formally... Read more

3. How do modern poets engage with classical influences, ecological concerns, and historical trauma to reframe poetic tradition in the 21st century?

This research highlights poetic engagements with classical heritage, environmental humanities, and traumatic memory, showing how poets reinterpret and transform literary antecedents and historical narratives. It examines the dialogue between ancient texts and modern poetics, the deployment of ecopoetics in Holocaust remembrance, and the renewal of elegiac form to articulate contemporary social and ecological justice realities.

Key finding: This study reveals how Boitani’s philological analysis of Ulysses coupled with Haroldo de Campos’ poetic transcreation (‘transcreation’) offers a dynamic reinterpretation of classical myth, combining history and poetry with... Read more
Key finding: Foix’s ‘poetry research’ adopts a realist avant-garde poetics that privileges fragmentary likenesses and the impossibility of detachment from lived reality, challenging surrealist dualisms. His work stages an accumulation of... Read more
Key finding: This ecopoetic study identifies how post-Holocaust Jewish-American women poets integrate nature as active agents of memory and trauma mediation, expanding Holocaust representation beyond anthropocentrism. Through landscapes... Read more
Key finding: Thomas’s poetry exemplifies early twentieth-century environmental consciousness fused with wartime sensibility, articulating a profound relationship with England’s rural landscape as a locus of identity and moral... Read more

All papers in Modern Poetry

Tanah, Tai, dan Tawa di Negeri yang Dijanjikan Di sebuah kampung Melayu yang sunyi, di tanah yang dijanjikan namun beraroma tai dan darah, berkumpullah para penjaga kebenaran-ataupun yang mengaku demikian. Ada seorang tok sufi yang... more
Kembara berdiri di tepi danau, memandang bayangannya sendiri di permukaan air yang tenang. Ia merasa seperti sedang menatap jiwa yang hilang, jiwa yang telah lama dicarinya. Tiba-tiba, sosok Sigmund Freud muncul di sampingnya, merokok... more
Tanah, Tai, dan Tawa di Negeri yang Dijanjikan Di sebuah kampung Melayu yang sunyi, di tanah yang dijanjikan namun beraroma tai dan darah, berkumpullah para penjaga kebenaran-ataupun yang mengaku demikian. Ada seorang tok sufi yang... more
Buku Dalam Semangat Perjuangan: Puisi-puisi untuk Kemajuan dan Kebebasan (2023) karya Salustiano Filipe Ximenes merepresentasikan kesinambungan antara tradisi literatura resistência Timor-Leste dan wacana pembangunan pasca-kolonial.... more
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This paper explores Mick Short’s model of deviation to analyze linguistic deviations in Gabriel García Márquez’s short story The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. The study adopts a qualitative research approach, and the investigation... more
Texto Poético, v. 25, n. 46 (2025) https://textopoetico.emnuvens.com.br/rtp/issue/view/57 Editores do número especial, “Carta e poesia, conexões”: Solange Fiuza, Marcos Antonio de Moraes e Jerónimo Pizarro. Editoria Geral: Rodrigo Garcia... more
Fiuza, Solange, Marcos Antonio de Moraes, e Jerónimo Pizarro. 2025. “Carta e poesia, conexões”. Texto Poético 25 (46):2-7. https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2005n46a1212 https://textopoetico.emnuvens.com.br/rtp/article/view/1212 Considerando... more
Το δοκίμιο «Ο Άνθρωπος μεταξύ Πιθήκου και Εικόνας Θεού» εξετάζει τη σύνθεση επιστήμης και θεολογίας για την ανθρώπινη φύση. Ανιχνεύει την εξέλιξη του ανθρώπου μέσα από τη βιολογία, φιλοσοφία και Πατερική σοφία, υποστηρίζοντας ότι ο... more
This study explores the life story and works of Tawfiq Wahbi, an Ottoman-Kurdish military, political, and intellectual figure. Born in Sulaimaniya in 1891, Wahbi received his education in Sulaimaniya, Baghdad, and İstanbul. He became a... more
In her poem "In the Waiting Room", Elizabeth Bishop constructs a confusing narrative, fragmented between many line breaks and seemingly disconnected nouns and adjectives, that provides no clarity on the subject to the reader at first... more
Kisah reflektif seorang manusia yang memilih tetap terjaga ketika dunia terlelap. Dari secangkir kopi pertama hingga cahaya fajar terakhir, setiap halaman merekam pergulatan antara lelah dan inspirasi, antara riuhnya pikiran dan heningnya... more
“Robert Graves and the Goddess” Among “my authorities, my authors” (as Norman O. Brown, once put it, speaking of first influences in the life of his own work), Graves was the one with whom my immersion in the Goddess-theme began, back... more
राष्ट्रेन्दु शेषेन्द्र पर समावर्तन का एकाग्र समावर्तन के लिए यह अत्यंत शुभ प्रसंग है कि तेलुगु के महाकवि और राष्ट्रेन्दु स्व. शेषेन्द्र शर्मा के कृतित्व और व्यक्तित्व से उसके पाठक रूबरू होने जा रहे है। शेषन्द्र जी के यशस्वी पुत्र श्री... more
En tus ojos, mi hogar, mi calma Milagro de amor Amigos "por siempre" Padre mi ejemplo José Joaquín Vieyra Rincón Ya no es lo mismo Qué triste es la vida El mismo sentir No puedo olvidarte No sufras más Amor secreto Imaginado amor Hermoso... more
В издании собраны основные работы выдающегося языковеда и фольклориста Александра Афанасьевича Потебни (1835–1891): «Мысль и язык», «Психология поэтического и прозаического мышления», «О некоторых символах в славянской народной поэзии»,... more
本文嘗試重新詮釋《創世記》巴別塔經文,以提供語言多樣性正面的聖經基礎。研究一方面以語言學家喬姆斯基 (Noam Chomsky) 的「普遍文法」(Universal Grammar) 作為語言機制的理論架構,另一方面則以朱熹「理一分殊」的思想作為神學原型,藉此探討永恆之道與語言多樣性之間的關係。本文由此推演出「道一分殊」的觀念,並進一步論述人類語言所承載的神學意涵與其在創造、救贖中的角色。
Amor fati è il titolo di una poesia di Antonia Pozzi, datata 13 maggio 1937. Una data che sta tra la fine dell'infelice rapporto con Remo Cantoni e l'aprirsi della luce, presto spenta, del rapporto con Dino Formaggio. Poesia perturbante,... more
The Lord's Prayer in the 1537 Munster, the 1551 Cinquarbres, the 1555 DuTillet/1879 Herbst, the new Garza-Trimm/MS Or150, Howard’s Shem Tov editions (printed and A-G), the Hebrew manuscript Vat.ebr.100, and the Hebrew manuscript MS... more
UID/ELT/00657/2013Reading once more, besides other critical texts, some excerpts of the letters written by Fernando Pessoa and sent to Adolfo Casais Monteiro, on January 13 and January 20 of 1935, this paper tries to reconstruct Pessoa’s... more
Re-uploaded, with to date 89 views. A pivotal text in my profile of work in that here is where I first developed a method of critical writing steeped in an understanding of the actual process of an author’s inward development as the... more
Urban life emerges as a recurring theme in T. S. Eliot's poetry, reflecting the everyday despair, despondency, and sordidness experienced by its dwellers in the major metropolises around the world. The daily experiences of people in... more
The context of women, water and their dynamics is the intertwined graph of women living varied ways reflecting the cultural, social, and economic standards. The dynamic dependence of women on water is complimentary to the inclusive growth... more
Versos escritos por poetas de pueblo y veredas, escritos con pasión, amor, fuerza, perfidia, sabor campesino, y traición.
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This article examines T. S. Eliot’s “Gerontion” (1920), “Sweeney Among the Nightingales” (1919), and “Marina” (1930) as a trajectory of Eliot’s poetic and spiritual vision, moving from cultural desiccation and grotesque caricature to... more
A collection of poetry, divided into two parts: part one contains science-fiction poems, while part two contains fantasy, myth, and horror poems.
Di antara kabut yang menggantung di atas lembah purba, di malam yang senyap saat bintang-bintang menolak bicara, seorang pemuda berdiri di puncak gunung dengan mata terpejam. Ia bukan sekadar menunggu fajar. Ia menunggu gema. Sebuah gema... more
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Ovaj rad donosi detaljnu analizu Osmanbašićeve poeme Muhabet iznad Sarajeva, posvećene književnom velikanu Meši Selimoviću. Fokus je na formalnim, jezičkim i semantičkim slojevima teksta, s posebnim naglaskom na intertekstualni dijalog... more
Artykuł analizuje podstawowy mechanizm widzenia w perspektywie neurobiologicznej i filozoficznej. Zamiast traktować percepcję jako bierne odbicie świata, wskazuje on, że oko od początku koduje różnice jasności poprzez system pól... more
The Other Side of the Wall is a powerful collection of 50 poems that capture the voices of struggle, resilience, and survival in the face of oppression. Authored by Raja Rao Pagidipalli, the book sheds light on lives often silenced by... more
γράφει ο Βασίλης Μακρυδήμας (*) Στην άμμο τα έργα στήνονται μεγάλα των ανθρώπων, / και σαν παιδάκι τα γκρεμίζει ο Χρόνος με το πόδι, έγραφε στο ποίημα με τίτλο «Φθορά» ο Καρυωτάκης, τελευταίο της δεύτερης σειράς των «Ελεγειών». Μέσα στην... more
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) is described as one of the significant Arab intellectuals of the 20th century. He was a novelist, poet, translator, literary critic, and visual artist. Jabra’s contributions were of great importance in... more
, μολονότι στην περίπτωση αυτή πρόκειται περί αποσπασματικής προδημοσίευσης μονογραφίας μου πάνω στο έργο τού εικαστικού). Ο ανωτέρω τίτλος θα παραμείνει ίδιος και στις υπόλοιπες συνομιλίες που θα ακολουθήσουν. Η σειρά διάταξης των έργων,... more
"Nissim Ezekiel was an eminent Indian poet, playwright, actor, editor, and art critic, widely regarded as a foundational figure in postcolonial Indian English literature. Born on 16 December 1924, he played a pioneering role in shaping... more
Featuring Filipino dagli by Stefani J. Alvarez-Brüggmann, new poetry from Miguel Manso, prose by Carla Bessa, a review of Archana Venkatesan's new translation of Bakhti poet Nammāḻvār's 9th century epic, excerpts from HOPIN' by Puneh... more
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