Contemporary Love Poetry Writing Styles

It would appear that there are different writing styles evident in contemporary love poetry of every era, including the present. In other words, although some of them may appear similar in nature in many ways, there are also those that are distinctly different.

Throughout the course of literary history, there have been many contemporary love poets whose love poetry has focused on an increased awareness of the plight of mankind in his or her particular era. This style of contemporary love poetry tends be a concerted effort to rescue and teach base survival to flailing humankind. It may come to be regarded as one kind of literary history over time, although in its own era, it may be perceived as appalling in some sense.

Other contemporary love poets tend to have a different writing style that focuses primarily on increasing the awareness of higher values that are recognizable or identifiable in their era, as well as later eras.

The question may arise as to which is more valid? Is one a legitimate expression of reality, while the other is not?

To the individual contemporary love poet, his or her understanding of reality is reflected in the contemporary love poetry that he or she writes regardless of the era.

The question becomes increasingly complex when his or her contemporary love poetry is critiqued by others, during that era, or at a later date.

Which has more academic value in its eras or in different eras?

One might argue that whatever is magnified is what will continue to grow. In other words, when the plight of humankind is magnified, that is what grows in the collective heart and mind of humankind. If higher values are magnified, they are what grows.

Reality in contemporary love poetry is somewhat of a 'no man's land', as no contemporary love poet ever has exclusive rights to claims of sole reality other than in his or her moment in time. Because that moment in time is always temporary, there is invariably room for more reality. Reality's room in history is never filled, because as quickly as love poets write to fill it, it is emptied out again and re-filled by others.

Some realities never change like life and death, light and the lack thereof, or darkness. Like sunset and sunrise, they reappear on the horizon of time in every era and resound like the lapping of eternal waves celebrating life.

Each reality in turn, can be focus on the purity of thought and expression of a contemporary love poet. The opposite is true, as well. Like beauty, reality lies in the eyes of its beholder.

The innate desire for humankind to place judgment on fellow man in every era, is related to the need or desire to force his or perception on others.

Thus, regardless of how many writing styles appear in the course of history, there is an inevitable struggle linked to survival of the fittest that surfaces in contemporary love poetry.