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 the major figures in modernism literature helped radically to redefine what poetry and fiction could be and do; figures like T. S. Eliot, Pound, Kafka, and Stevens are considered the founders of twentieth century modernism.

Postmodernism, like modernism follows most of the same ideas, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing imitation, parody, irony, and playfulness. Postmodernism art and thought favor reflectivity and self - consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity, ambiguity, simultaneity, and emphasis on the destructured dehumanized subject.

While postmodernism seems very much like modernism in these ways, it differs from modernism in its attitude toward a lot of the

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.

Returning north, even the sky grew thin

We have evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,

Yet another feminist postmodern poet is Carolyn Kizer who describes her childhood like a still life painting in "Thrall." Kizer displays a lack of attachment to her father as she grows and sees spending time with him as a duty until he is gone.

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