Long poem
The long poem is a form of poetry. The long poem called one - contrary to the genre tradition that always brevity of the poem emphasized - extensive poem that is often applied in multiple parts or as a cycle. It mixes lyric and epic elements, often without binding metrical structure. The long poem as a phenomenon of modern literature should be distinguished from older lyrical forms such as the epic or ballad.
Long poem Höllerer
The term long poem is particularly associated with the literary scholar and poet Höllerer who put the long poem in response to the "forced preciousness and Chinoiserie " German verse forms in his theory of modern poetry: " The long poem is, in the present moment, by its very form by politically; because it shows a backlash against confinement in demarcated areas, and boxes. "
" Jobs Do not get ' silence ' and ' silence ' ," said Höllerer. "Silence as a theory of art form whose medium is language, eventually leads to shorter and shorter, verschlüsselteren poems; opting for whole sentences and longer lines mean driving force for Mobile. ", the term" long poem "or" long poem "refers not primarily to the number of lines. It is crucial that long poems occur not as compressed as shorter poetry and thus any " Feiertäglichkeit " be avoided. " In the long poem will not be especially loaded every word. Flat passages are not bad passages, but probably are ausgedrechselte bodies that have currently been pushing more and more into the short poem, poor places. [ ... ] Subtle and trivial, literary and everyday expressions along in a long poem. "
Examples
In contemporary German literature about Günter Herburger or Ulf Stolterfoht (wood smoke over Heslach ) have emerged with long poems, previously, for example, Bertolt Brecht ( The education of millet ), Rolf Dieter Brinkmann ( Westward 1 & 2) and Heiner Müller ( Mommsen's Block). Uwe Tellkamp works according to his own statements on a long poem called Nautilus. Important long poems of the English language Modern are TS Eliot The Waste Land, Allen Ginsberg case of America, Ezra Pound's Cantos and Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Of great importance for the contemporary poetry, the cyclically -scale long poems by the Danish poet Inger Christensen are det and alfabet.