Contemporary British and American Poetry Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study including art, music, film, literature, communications, fashion and technology. Postmodernism followed modernism, which is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean. In the period of “high modernism,” from around 1910 to 1930 …showed first 75 words of 1687 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1687 total…Postmodernism in contrast doesn’t lament the idea of fragmentation or incoherence but rather celebrates that. Three American postmodern poets who demonstrate this celebration of fragmentation and dehumanization are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Carolyn Kizer and when these poets are compared to the modern poets and the postmodern poets that have come before them it is clear to see the expansion of expression and the confessional progression that the feminist poets have moved in.