Then... Post-Modernist Movement

The center cannot hold? 
... 
There is no center!


Modernist poets adopt the view that there is no "one [inherent] truth" to be found, there is not a center to everything, and there is not just one way to express art. 

Each Poet Finds Their Own Way...

A monk asked, "What is the one word?"

The master said, "If you hold on to one word it will make an old man of you."

-#25, Chao-Chou.

A monk asked, "What is one word?"

The master said, "Two words."

-#257, Chao-Chou.