Quote:
Originally Posted by conny
Setting back poetry 80 years?... lol. I think not.
|
Hello conny, I think so. We had Eliot's modernism and the reavaluation of language, the opening it up to experiment and complexity, and then we had Larkin, anti-modernist, with very little experimentation in either language or politics, kicking Dylan and Graham off the shelves (okay I'm speaking of the Movement which he was a part of) and replacing it with the type of no-nonsense, stiff-upper lip verse that the modernists had done everything to overcome. For them language was a means and an ends; for Larkin it was just a means. And a pretty boring one at that.