Binarities in Contemporary Poetics, The Case of Language Poetry | ||
| المجلة العلمية بکلية الآداب | ||
| Volume 2024, Issue 56, July 2024, Pages 684-707 PDF (1.41 M) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jartf.2024.372183 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sura Sami | ||
| كلية المأمون الجامعة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study examines the concept of binarities in the poetic movement known as ‘Language Poetry’ which emerged in the United States in the late sixties. This study claims that the critical concept of ‘binarities’ is capable of illustrating how language poetry challenges conventional notions of poetic expression by critically juxtaposing well-established dualities, including meaning and form, language and meaning, as well as linearity and disjunction, among others. Consequently, this study reveals how language poets manipulate syntax and grammar to deliberately blur the boundaries among established poetic norms. Undermining those poetic norms challenges the readers’ expectations, turning them, in terms of reception, into active participants in the process of composition. That is, language poetry does not often employ familiar language constructions with direct meaning or message. However, by using fragmentation and disrupted syntax, language poetry confronts the capitalistic values that define dominant narratives and utilize language as a tool to promote pre-packaged ideas. By examining Language Poetry’s aesthetics, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the movement’s unique poetic and intellectual endeavors that serve as a site for critical engagement with the power dynamics inherent in language. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Language Poetry; Binarities; Meaning and Form; Language and Meaning; Linearity and Disjunction; Contemporary Poetry; Postmodern Poetry | ||
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