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An extreme example of a poem written entirely in (visually barely decipherable) eye dialect is "YgUDuh" by E. E. Cummings, which, as several commentators have noted, makes sense only when read aloud. [21] In this case, Cummings's target was the attitudes of certain Americans to Japanese people following World War II.
Language poetry is an example of poetic postmodernism. Its immediate postmodern precursors were the New American poets, a term including the New York School, the Objectivist poets, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.
Poetry written in the mid 12th century represents some of the latest post-Norman examples of Old English. [3] Adherence to the grammatical rules of Old English is largely inconsistent in 12th-century work, and by the 13th century the grammar and syntax of Old English had almost completely deteriorated, giving way to the much larger Middle ...
In 1796 he returned to support his father in Carlisle and found work with a firm there. Two years later his English Poems on Various Subjects were published by subscription. [1] Afterwards he turned to lighthearted humorous poems in dialect and the first edition of Ballads in the Cumbrian dialect was published in Carlisle in 1805. [2]
Theocritus provides an example of the Hellenistic adaptation of Aeolic poetry in his Idylls 28 – 31, which also imitate the Archaic Aeolic dialect. Idyll 29, a pederastic love poem, "which is presumably an imitation of Alcaeus and opens with a quotation from him," [11] is in the same meter as Book II of Sappho. The other three poems are ...
Dialect poets have occasionally appeared on the BBC since its establishment. Sam Smith featured on the radio in the 1920s. [56] In the 2010s, BBC radio programmes analysed the Manchester Ballads (which featured dialect) [57] and reported on contemporary poets that kept the tradition of dialect poetry alive. [58] [59]
There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, written in Doric. In some literary works, Doric is used as the language of conversation while the rest of the work is in Lallans Scots or British English. [3] A number of 20th and 21st century poets have written poetry in the Doric dialect.
William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, [1] writer, poet, philologist, [2] priest, mathematician, [3] engraving artist [4] and inventor. [3] He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. [1]