Proletarian poetry is a political poetry movement that developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, expressing the class-conscious perspectives of the working class through poems that are explicitly Marxist or at least socialist, though aesthetically varied. Its poetic forms range from styles emulating African-American slave work songs to modernist poetry, and major poets of the movement include Langston Hughes, Kenneth Fearing, Edwin Rolfe, Horace Gregory and Mike Gold.
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Place of Origin Notable Example Defining TraitViews human conflict from a social perspective and sees society in terms of economic classes 1 In the Other Atlases
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Proletarian poetry is a political poetry movement that developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s
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View human conflict from a social perspective (as opposed to personal, psychological, or universal) and see society in terms of economic classes.
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Major poets of the movement include Langston Hughes, Kenneth Fearing, Edwin Rolfe, Horace Gregory, and Mike Gold.
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