Part VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWII.doc

Part VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWII I. Fill in爐he blanks. The publication of Robert Lowell s Life Studies marked the coming of the age of _________ , which represents a new mode of perception and a way of writing. In poetry, Postmodernism strives to go against the vogue of______________ poem and its parent style, __________ of the previous decades. One distinct group of poets in the postwar period is_____________ , whose poetry seems to share common features such as ruthless, excruciating self-analysis of ones own background and heritage, ones own most private desires and fantasies etc. , and the urgent Ill-tell-it-all-to-you impulse. __________ is the spokesman of postwar Beat Generation in American literary history. Gary Snyder has been placed next to Allen Ginsberg among the Beat Generation. He seems to think that the job of the poet is to catch sight of__________________ , which resides nowhere but in___________ . Gary Snyder may be didactic, but he has a______________ vision. The poets who are labeled by David Perkins Against Civilization are______________ , __________ and____________ . One of the things that the New York School did, for a while in the 1960s, was their experiment with___________ . ______ was noted for the I do this I do that types of poems. In these poems , he tells in a flat tone the little things he did on just one or any of the days in his life. The readers feel bored through most of the reading process, but feel well rewarded often by a surprise in wait for them, one that is not, however, always apparent. The Black Mountain Poets are so called because these poets are associated with ______, or with___________ . Charles Olson, the leading figure of the Black Mountain Poets, is well-known for his essay___________ . Robert Duncans ideas on poetry include his views of poetry as________________ and of language with its regenerative possibilities to____________ . The post-World War D period wasn t a peaceful one for America