The study of different eras and overall progression of
American Poetry is personally wonderful for me because I love poetry and have
been writing poems ever since I was ten years old. I studied the ballad form
because I loved writing long dedication poems. Poetry has changed a lot since Shakespeare’s
ballads though! The speaker’s attitude and relationship with their subjects
progressed slowly yet surely throughout the ages. For example, the early Puritanism
poetry dealt with God’s signs and celebration of his grandeur and greatness;
the ceding era was of Romanticism where everything was idealized and humans
were put upon a pedestal; with the next eras all the way to Modernism becoming
more realistic and then abstract. I believe the primary change is the views the
poets took on themselves. They first viewed themselves as servants of God;
humble yet driven to do His Will, this attitude giving away to the prideful man
whose destiny is in his control; to a view that a man is a victim to
circumstances and fate, to finally, a total abstract and chaotic look to the
world and to themselves. People nowadays don’t know who are what they are;
giving rise to a society that does whatever it wants with no sense of
consequences. I guess that centuries of
trying to understand themselves only made the humankind even more confused
about themselves despite the advancements made in science and technology; for
the underlying question is; who are we and what is our purpose of living?
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