Modern Poetry
How to poetize modernity
without a pseudo social survey.
Neither a net inventory of vehicles
nor a fine census on decadency.
How to symbolize the current city,
perhaps like the ubiquitous Sandburg
praising to cement and metal.
Or cursing the paganism
in Lowell’s babelic Boston.
How to fictionalize a century gone?
without any contemporary cliché.
Like mentioning the words: global, chaos,
apocalypse or futurama.
About this poem
It is about the difficulty to express, poetize, codify or evoke this modern epoch in a new contemporary way.
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Written on April 27, 2016
Submitted by guillermowilliams on August 25, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBB AXXCX XXXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4 |
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