Group "Now"

Group "Teraz" - Polish poetical group existing in the 1970s associated with the New Wave.

The "Now" group, operating in Cracow, was the most important part of the New Wave. It was co-authored by authors such as Julian Kornhauser, Adam Zagajewski, Stanisław Stabro, Jerzy Kronhold, Jerzy Piatkowski and Wit Jaworski.

The group emphasized the need to intervene in social life, to turn literature into reality, to speak directly, without unnecessary metaphor, to reject poetry. Poetic conventions should be adapted to the requirements of the epoch. The key concepts in the group's work were modernity and modernity. Members of the group critically referred to the "Contemporary" generation, accusing authors associated with it of creating safe poetry, fleeing from today's difficult.

In terms of language, the group was approaching expressionism. According to the authors of the group, poetry should have persuasive and mobilizing functions, hence the authors willingly used the lyric of appeal, proclamation, commanding mode. In the poems, not the speaker but the addressee was more important. Bibliography

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