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The Generality of Innovative Poetry

For innovative poets, reality is a process of constant change, where things move within the flux of each moment’s change, thus possessing particularity that cannot be generalized. Therefore, many of them demand experience faithful to the momentary contexts of reality, and sincerity to express the consciousness of experience as it is. Thus, poetry can secure the particularity of reality, gaining the status of an object in itself. On the other hand, Bernstein argues that reality and consciousness are both products of language, and innovative poems that pursue sincerity end up conveying generalized experiences. Therefore, he seeks to actively create new reality rather than reproducing socially regulated experiences, thereby poetry becomes an object of experience in itself, giving rise to particular experiences rather than representing generalized experiences. However, new language uses of innovative poetry also function as signs, conceptual or perceptual, which represent not things but their culturally defined types, thus inevitably involving generality. Therefore, discarding the representation of external reality and embodying consciousness through new language uses should be seen as an effort to make the experience of poetry closer to reality, or to create new consciousness outside of societal control, while still retaining a degree of generality.