An Investigative Study of the Contribution of Modern Poetry to Countering the Reconstruction of Ideologies about the Woman: From Selected Modern Poems

Abstract

Man has been using human language for his communication activities. Ideas, ideologies, and concepts that are not correct in critical exploration can be identified as ideologies, which are communicated by humans knowingly or unknowingly in the use of language. Ideology is a social product. The primary objective of any creating ideologies by individual or group of individuals in the society is to maintain their power. In order to protect the validity of their ideologies, the people who produce ideologies specially attach concepts like religion, culture, heritage, etc. to those ideologies. In this way, ideologies have been born based on all social institutions. Among those ideologies, ideologies about woman have also been produced. Therefore the research problem here is to study how the use of modern poetry is to prevent the reconstruction of visualism about women. the aim of this research is to study the contribution of modern poetry to prevent the reconstruction of such ideologies. Although every human being in the society belongs to two types of male/female in the matter of sex according to biology, in general, all of them belong to the genus called human. However, two women has gained less power based on society’s ideologies. This research makes a strong contribution to eliminate the tragedy of lacking the power a human being deserves due to being a woman. In the literature review related to this research, modern poems were widely consulted and works related to many other literary genres were used. The qualitative method based on the literature sources was used as the research method. Also, in this study, the theoretical concepts of the Western critical studies are especially used. The data was collected from the library references and the Internet. The data was analyzed using the data analysis method. Accordingly, it can be concluded that modern poetry makes a strong contribution to prevent the reconstruction of many negative ideologies about women. Modern poetry directs the human thinking of the society in a new and progressive direction a000nd it is commendable that it is able to build a humanist discourse especially about women.