modern poets
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Modern poets are writers of poetry from roughly the late 19th century onward, though the term shifts with time—what counts as modern keeps moving.
The phrase often specifically refers to modernist poets like Eliot, Pound, and Stevens, who broke from traditional forms in the early 20th century.
More loosely, it means any poets writing in contemporary styles or about contemporary life: She studies modern poets rather than the Romantics.
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- identityWho someone is
- personal truthIndividually held conviction
- social justiceFair distribution of opportunities
- spoken wordPoetry delivered aloud
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