modern poetry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandpoetry
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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poetry
noun[U]
uk/ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tri/us/ˈpoʊ.ə.tri/
poems in general as a form ...
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Rhythmic effects surface as different word order patterns inmodernpoetryand traditional narrative.
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At the same time, she attempts to situate this thinking against the wider background of modern thinking andmodernpoetryand art.
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This reading suggestsmodernpoetryas a poetry of alcoholic disease, with the modern poet forced into alcoholism by the unbearable terror of the contemporary world.
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We see it perhaps at its best in some of ourmodernpoetry, where rationality is taboo altogether.
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However, even today, the concept of "modernpoetry" is still debated.
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They argued that it is degrading the value of themodernpoetry.
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Echoes of the genre continue intomodernpoetry.
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He was obsessed with the method of poetry and had an inclination toward the aesthetics ofmodernpoetry.
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Her work explores female sexuality, the unconscious and is influenced bymodernpoetry.
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Even his earliest poems have all the elements ofmodernpoetry: secularism, expression of individualist experience, awareness of social and political changes around him, etc.
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He was also a compulsive but disorganised reader of cosmogenia, classic andmodernpoetry, bullfighting and spiritualism.
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He wrote many novels,modernpoetry, self-improvement and agriculture.
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Chiasmus has been identified inmodernpoetryand prose.
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There were attempts at introducing imagist andmodernpoetrymethods in the early 20th century, and in the early republic period, patriotic works were very successful.
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Modernpoetrywas solemn, boring, and uneventful.
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Muchmodernpoetryavoids traditional rhyme schemes.
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As a poet, she emerged in the early 1990s when grunge was the height of fashion and her direct, aggressive and uncompromisinglymodernpoetrywas highly accessible.
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As well as poets laureate, though, we see school students, families with young children, casual readers, critics, academics, teachers and artists' squeezing every morning intomodernpoetry.
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