Although literary works are the products of the imagination of individual writers, they are considered to be the voices of the times. It is appropriate to consider literature as the essence of a long history and as a necessary document for social change, rather than as a dry reflection of social currents. In this way, in the contemporary literary environment, more attention is paid to poetry, lyrical content, expressive ability, social vision, and new ideas than to other types of literature. Free verse, which in recent times has been identified as modern poetry, has developed in the form of singing new verses. Accordingly, these poems have the characteristic of absorbing the modern trends of recent times. In general, the free verse that appeared in the late nineteenth century was renaissance-oriented and addressed the morals of the human race living in a particular place. In addition, they looked closely at the effects of economic and social changes and acted in such a way as to express their effects immediately through depiction. Thus, the modern poems of recent periods depict the various types of changes that occur in society every day. Under it, the ideologies expressed in recent modern poetry appear as sources of 'confessions' and sources of life for the living people. Accordingly, the expressions of modern poetry have focused on important socio-political and economic issues such as humanity, life problems, contradictions, crises, imbalances, effects of contemporary trends, reactions etc. Accordingly, modern literature diverges from the classical language of Tamil grammatical traditional poetry that has existed so far. Individual disability, mental nature, experience impressions, anger at restrictions, resistance, unity for love, failure thoughts, likes and dislikes about politics, and slander can all be found in modern poems. In this way, this review examines the pains of the basic people's lives, the inequality positions, the economic problems of the peasants, and the inhuman misery between the relations from the poems of the recent period.
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