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A paper which considers the role of poetry in relation to high and low culture, and looks at the importance of structure in Eliot, Yeats, and Crozier's poetry and Eminem's lyrics. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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and structure can be seen in relation to the concepts of high and low culture, and whether or not the boundaries between the two are becoming blurred. Western thought has,
traditionally, distinguished between high and low culture in that high culture is seen as inspirational: it represents the best and most sophisticated forms of art which a society can offer,
and is intended to inspire and encourage those who experience it. Low culture, on the other hand, as exemplified by television programmes and the mass print media, is seen as
reflecting, and even encouraging, the mundane and irresponsible behaviour of society. However, given the way in which cultural definitions shift and change according to social factors, it is not necessarily
the case that high and low culture are mutually exclusive. Pop art, in the 1960s, was regarded with horror by traditionalists, and is now perceived as a valid artistic form
with an accepted place in art history: it has made the transition from low to high.
As Eliot (cited 2003) notes, the poet has the task of finding a structure which can impose order and form on what he refers to as the immense panorama of
futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that it must fulfil the function of setting what
is essentially chaotic in an ordered and comprehensible form. The content of Prufrock tends to belie, on the surface, this notion of the function of form, since it is rambling,
indecisive and the embodiment of hesitancy and doubt. This can be seen as reflecting the individuals inability to cope with the constant shifts and changes of the modern world: Spurr
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