Selected Poetry

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The paper discusses various poems by a variety of poets. The poems referred to are poems of social comment and also of experimentation. The paper looks at how the poems discusses experiment with language, meter, rhyme, and rhythm as well as subject matter and so constitute a revolutionary expression as well as often a call for revolution.

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"Another influence on the socially conscious has been the changing nature of criticism. Any specific type of criticism provides a certain perspective on literature, serving to focus the argument and often to set forth criteria by which to judge given works. No one school of criticism should be seen as definitive, for all by their very nature focus the argument on a narrowed spectrum compared to the possible areas of inquiry and types of approach possible. For instance, Feminist Criticism serves the useful purpose of redirecting critical inquiries in a direction that has been ignored for far too long, offering a female point of view and suggesting ways in which society has stifled that point of view in the real world and in literature."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Amiri Baraka, "An Agony, As Now" In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2, Third Edition, Baym, Nina et al. (eds.), 2746-2747. New York: W.W. Norton,, 1989.
• Louise Bogan, "Women" At http://www.web-books.com/classics/Poetry/anthology/Bogan/Women.htm.
• Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" At http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1627.html.
• Christopher Buckley, "Why I'm in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze" In Bradley, John. Atomic Ghost: poets respond to the nuclear age. Coffee House Press, 1995.
• Mark Doty, "Tunnel Music": In Doty, Mark. Atlantis: Poems. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.

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