
Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity
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Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity
New Criticism
New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object
Dickinson's dashes do
Dickinson's dashes fracture syntax to mirror the fluidity of thought
Neruda's poetry does with everyday objects
Neruda's poetry elevates everyday objects like onions and socks into profound symbols of love and wonder
Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront
Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront seductive prose in the service of a monster's self-justification
Celan's 'Death Fugue' does
Celan's 'Death Fugue' poetically captures the Holocaust's horrors through the oppressors' linguistic framework
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath's confessional poetry turned personal suffering into art
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