The Poetry of Protest

This paper analyses the many literary voices of protest as raised in the Emergency protest poetry flowering during the Emergency period and examines how protest literature, because of its operational constraints, employs tools such as parables, allegory, satire and the absurd relating to one’s own inaction, fear of prosecution, defiance analysis of the social milieu, the tragedy of the individual in the face of Emergency excesses, the insincerity of political charlatanry, opposition to Brahminisation and Sanskritisation, starvation of people leading to death due to atomic power. It beautifully pictures how the poems abound in very original images drawing their strength from folklore, rituals, exorcism, mythology, religion and local festivals for bringing home the point that Emergency protest poetry was nothing but a simultaneous flowering in many languages affecting the record of the varied hues of Protest to an experience of repression.

Interim, 2011

Radical Teacher, 2013

From the beginning of the Occupy Movement, poetry has occupied a major supporting role. Both the New York and Boston encampments immediately set up a library tent, and poetry readings were a regular part of the camp’s activities.

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Poetics of the Resistance poetry This dissertation focuses on “Poetics of the resistance poetry”. According to Aristotle concept of poetics means imitation. Imitation is a kind of art. The poet can give interpretation of his own knowledge. It is a natural assumption anyone can understand write poetry. But resistance poetry is totally difference from Aristotle’s concept of poetics. Resistance poetry talks about the individual pain of the community. One resistance poetry way of understanding gives the understanding of the whole pain of the society. The speaker of the resistance poetry, he is not only in poet, but also an activist. Each and every speaker faced the social struggle in his own native. The resistance doesn’t have power to against the dominance so the poet gave voice for the voiceless people. The chapter begins from Aristotle concept of poetics. Poetics means “The Art of imitation”. Poetic refers to poetry. Earlier the assumption about the Art was representation of human being. Art is not only in classical but it is also about enjoyment of the natural assumption. The chapter aims to illustrate various themes and issues of Resistance Literatures across the globe. Dalit issues in the Indian Subcontinent, the subjugation of Elam Tamils in Sri Lanka, the oppression faced by Tibetans and Palestinians in the hands of their respective occupationists, Women’s issues pertaining to Black Afro-American community and the Islamic community are dealt with in detail here. The genres of Resistance Literature are also varied. As a proof to this, I have drawn examples of various genres. Each of these works is literary output result from violence, bloodshed and mental trauma. They are strictly not aesthetic endeavors, but the strength exhibited by people in the face of a serious crisis still serves to instill hope for a better and brighter for tomorrow’s life. The middle of the chapter deals with reason for choosing the selected theme from, the issues of Dalit, Black, Tibet, Tribal, Israel, Islamic Women and Eelam. These writings are from different spheres, it is all about resistance. The concept of resistance is reflected not only in the poem mode but also the literary genres such as novel, short story and autobiography. These poems are testimonies of resistance and resistance voice. Resistance poetries emerged from many places. The lower societies are troubled in many ways by the dominant all across the world. The main concept in resistance poetry is to voice for voiceless people, thus expressing the anger of the marginalized through the medium of poetry, novel, and story. Resistance is also recorded in diary and piece of manuscript, for reference to future generations. At the same time it is used for knowing what happened in past history, where the past history holds association to future. The suppressed people did not have social, political, economic and fundamental power in life. They lived a helpless life. But later on they got their own leader, activist and poet to tell about their bitter experiences.

In Occupy Poetics, Thom Donovan collects a series of responses to the Occupy movement to observe how aesthetics and politics might intersect. With Brian Ang, Steve Benson, Ana Božičević, David Brazil, Brandon Brown, David Buuck, Anelise Chen, Stephen Collis, Lara Durback, Jackqueline Frost, Dan Thomas Glass, Evan Kennedy, Ben Kimnont, Lauren Levin, Richard Owens, Jennifer Scappettone, Suzanne Stein, Anna Vitale, Jeanine Webb, Kathy Westwater, Brian Whitener and Thom Donovan (Ed.). Essay Press, 2015. Essay originally written and published in 2012, at the height of Occupy and my ongoing involvement in related direct action. Free .pdf online at attached link and free access to the original essay on the Harriet blog here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/our-occupations-after-the-occupations-jeanine-webb/

Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: A Arts & Humanities - Psychology Volume 19 Issue 8 Version 1.0 Year 2019, 2019

Allen Ginsberg, one of the most rebellious poets in the history of American literature, throughout his life as a poet had taken poetry as a form of protest against different issues. These issues range from conventional societal norms, their justification instead of being suppressive and detrimental to the development of one's true self, to the hypocritical and arbitrary role of the contemporary American government. This paper aims to show how Ginsberg's poetry unmasks the true nature of all the oppressive operations of society and authority. Through the historical background and analysis of three of his poems, this paper also aims at showing the ways Ginsberg used poetry as a form of protest and rebellion against those operations that emphasize the arbitrary interest of the capitalistic society over individual selves, even at the cost of destroying them completely.

(Final paper title differs from presented title) In poetry, readers are allowed to place themselves within the speaker’s gaze. Unlike other forms of literature where one might be able to figuratively say, “I lost myself in that book!” poetry allows readers to leap into the lines of a poem and locate themselves, due to most poems being written in the first person. This is a loose description of the idea of “poetic appropriation” (developed in Ribeiro 2009). Protest poetry, specifically, undermines authority and speaks candidly about situations that negatively affect populations. This type of poetry allows one to incite several emotions through a medium that lends itself to the personal. In this essay I suggest that poetry has the ability to positively or negatively affect one's emotions. I focus on the poetry of George Moses Horton and discuss the implications of my thesis.

Cosmos and history: the journal of natural and social philosophy, 2010