TAILIEUCHUNG - Linking words with the world: The language poetry mission

The poets associated with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E School have remarkably borrowed from the Pound-Olson tradition of political poetry and poetics. But, they have also experimented with newer methods and matters that deviate from the tradition. Such continuation and departure from the tradition of the socio-cultural oriented language poets has been investigated here. Their poetic tenets have been examined through the ideas formulated by the outstanding cultural critics; Adorno, Jameson, Bakhtin, Foucault, Lukács, and Benjamin. Based on the thorough examination it has been found out that besides many other socio-cultural demands the language poets want to connect the words of art the world people live. Such connection, as they perform, has been disturbed for long time. | LINKING WORDS WITH THE WORLD THE LANGUAGE POETRY MISSION Saroj Koirala ABSTRACT The poets associated with the L A N G U A G E School have remarkably borrowed from the Pound-Olson tradition of political poetry and poetics. But they have also experimented with newer methods and matters that deviatefrom the tradition. Such continuation and departure from the tradition of the socio-cultural oriented language poets has been investigated here. Their poetic tenets have been examined through the ideas formulated by the outstanding cultural critics Adorno Jameson Bakhtin Foucault Lukács and Benjamin. Based on the thorough examination it has been found out that besides many other socio-cultural demands the language poets want to connect the words of art the world people live. Such connection as they perform has been disturbed for long time. Key Words Prose-poetry space and form ideological literature textual politics disruptions praxis. Among numerous schools tendencies and groups of contemporary American poetry a sharp division between traditional and experimental is noteworthy. The cooked and the raw poetry closed and open form new formalist and language poetry are further chains of this division Caplan 123 . Language poetry a significant wing of the second type is innovative creative and challenging. It is a school of radicalism in American poetics. Not only linguistically innovative this school of avant-garde school writers is fully committed to emerging alternative values of taste. These poets do maintain a unique affinity and departure with the established tradition of Pound-Olson poetics. Language poetry refers to all the different writing practices demonstrated by a rather loose group of writing communities mostly printed in magazines such as This Tottel s L A N G U A G E and Poetics Journal. Some of the leading writers of this school are Barrett Watten Ron Silliman Charles Bernstein Bob Perelman Bruce Andrews Ray DiPalma Lyn Hejinian and Clara Harryman. Having a .

• Ngôn ngữ học
• The language poetry mission
• Linking words with the world
• Linking words
• Space and form
• Ideological literature
• Textual politics