Modernity and poetry

The most striking feature of any lyric is contemporaneity. In poems, the poet depicts his feelings, thoughts and experiences, and he lives in society and this is reflected in his soul and consciousness. Every lyric in 99 cases out of a hundred is contemporary. We may not find historical figures, facts and designations in the poems of poets, but they contain - reflected from different artistic positions - characteristic features of reality, something of the spirit and atmosphere of the era is present. The fact that outside of society there is no and cannot be art does not mean that contemporaneity automatically arises in the works of the poet. No, it is introduced by him first of all through ideas and images, and then through all the verbal-expressive requisites, formal features, style, structure of the verse, etc. An important role in the manifestation of contemporaneity in the writer's work is played by his worldview, his ideological and aesthetic understandings. Therefore, when we talk about the principle of modernity, we cannot help but touch upon the issues of worldview and method, of ideology and mastery, of language and style, etc. Modernity is an aesthetic category that encompasses works of art in their entirety - both content and form. It is an intrinsic, essential feature that is carried not only by the plot or the concluding verse, but by the pathos of the work, by its tonality. Here, in the pathos, in the general sound of the work, the ideological and artistic elements are inseparably combined and form a single aesthetic whole.