VALUES OF THE SELF IN THE EIGHTY-PERIOD POETRY
VALUES OF THE SELF IN THE EIGHTY-PERIOD POETRY

Summary/Abstract: If the orientation of the eighty – period poetry toward the daily had as a possible cause the demystifying desire of the writers toward the socio-political context of the time, the change of the perspective of reporting to the lyrical self was primarily caused by their "rift" toward the previous literary model – the modernism. The separation from modernism was justified by the fact that the eighty poets (young students at that time) were no longer spiritually found in the literary paradigm offered by the Modernists. They are looking for a more authentic self, a self that keeps in touch with the empirical one, not an impersonal one, detached from the referee, as the modern poetry offered. Thus, taking over the model of the beat generation, whose admirers are repeatedly declared, the eighty- period poets propose the personality self. This is the self that keeps in touch with the real, biographical, empirical self. But the eighty – period poetry is quite eclectic, and the choices of writers regarding the type of self-reflected in their work are different. Although all these poets try to illustrate pre personist self, it develops different values, from biographical self, to the confesive self, moral self, or character self.

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