ENG 380Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dana Gioia
13 Sep 2017
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Expansive poetry is a narrative, dramatic and sometimes lyric poetry of the late 20th century that conveys significant non-confessional observations, thoughts and feelings about the world outside the self and about the self"s various relationships with this outer world. In carrying such content, it generally uses traditional rhyme and meter sometimes loosened or roughened incorporating natural speech patterns. Kevin walzer"s the ghost of tradition: expansive poetry and post modernism, storyline press, Expansive poets were attempting to expand two things: The campus is not a bad place for the poet to work. It"s just a bad place for all poets to work. Society suffers by losing the imagination and vitality that poets brought to public culture.
