Chlouvānem/Literature: Difference between revisions

Contemporaneous, but mostly unrelated to the Explorations, is the spread of ''Yūraħāṇi poetry'', named after the poet ''Yūraħāṇah'' (likely a pseudonym) from the Western borderlands (i.e. modern Nanyådajātia and Ajāṣṭra). Yūraħāṇi poetry is essentially a style of short, light poetry about love, usually expressing total devotion towards the loved person. It is also notable as the first current in Chlouvānem literary history to be predominantly masculine, being written by mostly male poets. For all of antiquity and as far as less than a century ago, until the Kaiṣamā era, among males, traditionally the working class, only a very small minority could have the opportunity to study and dedicated themselves to traditionally feminine careers – politics, bureaucracy, science, and arts. And even those males that could undertake artistic careers did not traditionally produce any distinct style compared to their female peers; the Yūraħāṇi current was the first one to do so, to specifically give literary voice to the "common male" of the era; sometimes with a literary Ego being an educated man, and therefore exactly what the poets were, but much more commonly from the perspective of poorer farm workers or other male professions. Yūraħāṇi poetry also introduced to the poetry world new metaphores, mostly nature-based, and referring to the nature of the West, with plants and landscapes that hadn't usually been used in the poetry of the wetter-climate lands east.