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20th century poetry

By Jens24
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    20th century

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    Modernism

  • High Modernism

    High Modernism

    Golden age of modernism
    This period saw the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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    II WW

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    postmodernism

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    Postcolonial literature

  • The Last Poets

    The Last Poets

    The Last Poets was a poetry and political music group that was born out of the African-American Civil Rights movement.
  • Spoken word

    Spoken word

    Spoken word poetry originated from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and blues music.
    Modern day spoken word poetry became popular in the underground African-American community in the 1960s with the Last Poets. Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
  • Martianism

    Martianism

    mechanical birds with many wingsperch on the handcause the eyes to meltor the body to shriek without pain