Poetry generally projects emotionally and sensuously charged human experience in metrical language and the content of poetry reflects the variety of concerns of human beings in every period and in every region of the world. According to Michael Hulse "every age gets the literature it deserves" and "throughout the century, the hierarchies of values that once made stable poetics possible have been disappearing."1 "Like everything else in contemporary poetry, form is the subject of fierce debate and widely divergent opinions."2 "Contemporary poetry emphasises accessibility, democracy and responsiveness, humour and seriousness, and reaffirms the art's significance as public utterance."3 Within contemporary poetry "it is not the line that is the most important unit but the way a verse, paragraph or the whole of a poem works together."4 "The individual poem is somehow indeterminate, an exploration or process of discovery in which we are asked to accompany the poet."5
One such......
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