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Lyric poetry is a genre of private meditation rather than public commitment. The impulse in Marxism toward
changing a society deemed unacceptable in its basic design would seem to place demands on lyric poetry
that such poetry, with its tendency toward the personal, the small scale, and the idiosyncratic, could never
answer. There is within Marxism, however, also a strand of thought that would locate in lyric poetry
alternative modes of perception and description that call forth a vision of worlds at odds with a repressive
reality or that draw attention to the workings of ideology within the hegemonic culture. The poetic
imagination may indeed deflect larger social concerns, but it may also be implicitly critical and utopian.