1936-2029         tomeyes                                                         
  


      Tom Fallon


 Modern Literature       

Revolution! New World! New Art! New Literature!
The revolution creating a new human view of the world has been noted to begin with the 17th Century French Revolution.  Changes continued to evolve during the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries with the industrial revolution, new inventions and new ideas presented by scientists and philosophers. 

Writers evolving slowly during the 17th and 18th Centuries suddenly turned away from poetry and traditional verse forms in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries to invent new literary forms to express the new human view of the world.  Visual artists also evolved during the 17th and 18th Centuries and in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries invented revolutionary new art forms. 

The modern world, and modern art, evolved, with the new human view of the world.  Poetry and other traditional verse forms do not express the spirit of the new, the modern, world.

                    Walt Whitman - Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.
                    Claude Debussy -  I am increasingly convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a
                            traditional and fixed form.

                    Jean Hans Arp - I wanted to find another order, another value for man in nature.  I wanted to create new
                            appearances, to extract new forms from man.  

                    Wassily Kandinsky - There is no must in art because art is free. 
                            
                    Ezra Pound - Make it new.
 
                    William Carlos Williams - All the ways and means we have of writing just go to prove that no one yet has yet
                            discovered any one best way.  Every creative writer will experiment, try out new techniques. 

                    Marianne Moore - I disliked the term “poetry” for any but Chaucer’s or Shakespeare’s or Dante’s.  I do not now
                            feel quite my original hostility to the word, since it is a convenient almost unavoidable term for the thing
                            (although hardly for me - my observations, experiments in rhythm, or exercises in composition).  What I
                            write, as I have said before, could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.
                   
                    Richard Kostelanetz - Perhaps the most accurate term for my imaginative endeavors would be “Language Art”...

                    Tom Fallon - We human beings embracing life's creative force, investigating, experimenting, inventing, creating
                            a multiplicity of literary forms as natural as the multiplicity of created life forms.