Social poetry is poetry that performs a social function or carries a level of social commentary. The term appears to have first arisen as a translation of the Spanish poesia social, describing the post-Spanish-Civil-War poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and has since been applied by different scholars to other bodies of work, including Mexican-American Chicano poetry in Texas of the same period and English-language poets such as W. H. Auden and George Bernard Shaw.
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Place of Origin Notable Example Defining TraitPoetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, originated there.
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1. Wikipedia: Social poetry
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The term seems to have first appeared as a translation from the original Spanish Poesia Socíal, used to describe the post-Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s (including poets such as Blas de Otero).
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Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary.
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