Levity, an Eccentric Form in Modern Poetry, Unveils Confused Emotion and the Absence of Central Religion
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Levity, Eccentric Form, Modern Poetry, Confused Emotion, Central ReligionAbstract
It is widely acknowledged that the inherent component of emotional episodes and modern points of interest lies with the theory of the 'unconscious' state of mind and its influences on human nature. Contemporary poems portray the dilemma of the age in minute analysis of moral & spiritual ailments of lost & misdirected individuals and their anxieties. The objective of the essay is to demonstrate the nature and quality of the mind the poets portrayed. The modern era is a period of disintegration and interrogation following the choice between different ideas and philosophy, religion and science, capitalism, and socialism. And the artifice, levity, is a suitable instrument employed to propagate the complexities and intricacies of contemporary Western urban life to favor the variety of literary techniques such as intertextuality, allusion, juxtaposition, discontinuity, fragmentation, self-consciousness, ambiguity, and emphasis on de-structured subjectivity. Our purpose is to mark the quest of poets to exhibit poor fascination of mind unable to face challenges of the existing world resulting from a lack of spiritual accomplishment or weakening religious consciousness followed by the rise of frivolous persuasion, an improvised task that modern poets endeavored.
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