Question

The 1960s was not only a time of change in the rights of the american people, but it was also a time of leaving behind traditional forms of poetic verse.
true or false

Answer 1

Is it true. The American Poetry suffers some change too, according to some new poets appeared in the sixties. That was when a Poet called Robert Bly changed the name of his magazine called “The Fifties” to “The Sixties”. This literary magazine used to publish criticism about the old and new poets, most of the Editorials by Robert Bly himself.

With this, even Walt Whitman, one of the most acclaimed North American poets of the late 18th century, was criticized. Walt Whitman was one of the first to break the British poetry style, in which metrics and rhymes were strict. After he came out, other poets with different proposals, including Olson, who suggested the theory of "breathing," poetry more faithful to subjective feelings by putting pauses and breaks in words, which suggested moments of breathing to the declaimers. Williams and Pound were other poets who suggested before the 1960s poetry focused on economy, liveliness, and that it would be instantaneous. This group of poets was called "Imagists". Robert Bly called this the poetry of figures, ridiculing.

According to him, their poetry was superficial. However, he himself used images to create his poetry, which he said communicated inner psychic events. In this way, his poetry approached the previous ones but with more freedom of creation and using surrealism.