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CONTEMPORARY POETRY - Coggle Diagram
CONTEMPORARY POETRY
THE MOVEMENT (1950s)
New coming class empowered by the post-war Labour government
reacted against some trends in British poetry
Ezra Pound's political commitment
Dylan Thomas's symbolism
T.S. Eliot's intellectualism
tendency towards British provincialism and insularity
clear and comprehensible poetry about everyday life
Main representatives:
Philip Larkin
Thom Gunn
named after an article published in
The Spectator
in 1954
THE LIVERPOOL POETS (1960s)
the capital of the revolution in pop music (The Beatles)
'Pop poets'
Roger McCough
Brian Patten
Adrian Henri
simple and direct language
personal feelings and innocent protest against establishment
wrote for the young
THE GROUP (1950s)
radical protest against The Movement poets
they ignored contemporary problems (WWII, concentration camps, nuclear war) to refugee in the quiet world of insularity
published
A Group anthology
in 1963
Main representative
Ted Hughes
THE MARTIANS (1970s - 1980s)
Main representatives
Craig Raine
Christopher Reid
named after a collection by Raine
He describes familiar earthly sights through the eyes of a Martian
they looked at the reality through the distorting filter of a lens
POETRY OF THE UNDERGROUND (1960s)
Urban poetry associated with rock music and festivals
Isle of Wight 1968
Woodstock 1969
linked to the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
anti-Vietnam war protests
ULSTER POETRY (1970s)
Main representative
Seamus Heaney
they turned back to the past
nature as the locus of Ireland's memory