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==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

==Characteristics of progressive poetry==

Progressive poetry is the offspring of [[Modernism]], a nihilistic reaction against [[Romantic]] and [[Victorian]] poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>''Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism'' https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>Article on the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>Article on Nietzsche's concept of ''ressentiment'': https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>''Library of Congress Disrespects Poet Laureate'' http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Progressive poetry is the offspring of [[Modernism]], a nihilistic reaction against [[Romantic]] and [[Victorian]] poetry that launched a revolution in bad grammar following the horrors of World War I.<ref>''Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism'' https://classicalpoets.org/2019/03/03/who-killed-poetry-a-critique-of-modernism-and-post-modernism-part-i/</ref> Postmodernism, developing out of this movement in turn, reacted against the impersonal objectivity and intellectual obscurity characterized by Modernism to focus on the relative position of the speaker. Poetry that adheres to this worldview is usually written from an autobiographical perspective and tends to take a confessional tone, focusing on the underlying (and often multiple overlapping) mental disorders from which the author suffers,<ref>Article on the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/plath</ref> and misattributing personal defects as problems of the larger society.<ref>Article on Nietzsche's concept of ''[[ressentiment]]'': https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bal-nietzsches-ressentiment-alive-and-well-today-20150619-story.html</ref> Given its personal and political nature, writing “verse” of this kind from the perspectives of other individuals—particularly those of a different social background—is strongly discouraged and has resulted in charges of [[cultural appropriation]]. This has occurred even in cases in which a poet writes about his own mixed ancestry.<ref>''Library of Congress Disrespects Poet Laureate'' http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/library-congress-disrespects-poet-laureate/</ref>

Adherents of this movement do not include such Modernist as [[William Butler Yeats]], [[T.S. Eliot]], who were  conservative, as was [[W. H. Auden]], eventually.<ref>Essay on T.S. Eliot's erudition: https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref>  

Adherents of this movement do not include such Modernist as [[William Butler Yeats]], [[T.S. Eliot]], who were  conservative, as was [[W. H. Auden]], eventually.<ref>Essay on T.S. Eliot's erudition: https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/allusions-in-eliot/</ref>