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he likes. Under such a situation, he wants to goin a novel way. This trend in him has caused the creation of new poetry.
Due to the scientific developments, the system of mass media had developed. The radio, television, film, newspaper, journal, etc., the developed mass media, are of immense use to communicate even toa common folk. Educ on has also reached almost all. Literature had been enjoyed only by scho- lars. But the situation has changed now. Literature is now enjoyed by all irrespective of the class, creed, caste, etc. Soa sort of poetry which is more or less near to the folklore flowered which has led to the development of new poetry.
The above mentioned are some of the important factors that form the grounds of the development of new poetry. The western influence like Walt Whitman, Eliot and others is cons- Ppicuous.
New poetry is denoted by a number of terms like verse libre, blank verse, naked poetry, prose-poetry etc., in the west. Likewise, in Tamil also putukkavitai, vacana-kavitai, uraivtccu, corkélam, uraippa, nirvana-kavitai, vifunilaippa, péeccunilaip- pd, etc. are used to denote the same. The comparative study of these terms reveal that the notion in the mind of the pocts as well as the critics who call the new poetry so, in the west as well as in Tamil are almost one and the same. As far as modern Tamil literature is concerned it is very difficult to draw ademarcation line between the Free-verse and the prose- poetry. They overlap each other.
Whether new poetic works belong to prose-poetry or Free- verse, the journals add fuel to the fire of creativity in the modern wits. Manikkodi, Saraswathi, Ilakkiyavattam, FEluttu, Kacata tapara, WNadai, Vanampadi, Catangai, Pirakiiai, Jayanthi, Kannadasan, Tamarai, Dipam, Cemmalar, Kanaiyali, Nana-ratham, Terukkittu, Annam are some of the journals in ‘Tamil which kindled the poetic fervour in the wits, served as the perennial source of inspiration, and displayed the new poetry In a striking manner. The modern poets united them- aclves in different groups and developed the literary movements.
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