Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
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