Creative Power and Its Ability to Initiate Social Change : A Look at Jenny Wrangborg’s Use of Poetry to Transform

Sammanfattning: The power of the pen used to spark images of the depicted dynamics between the powerful and the powerless is demonstrated in Swedish poet and activist Jenny Wrangborg’s collection of working-class poems. Wrangborg’s poems, which describe the daunting situations faced by marginalized members of the working-class sector causes the reader to question whether or not enough change is taking place, and at what paste is change truly happening in modern society. The use of Wrangborg’s work in this study is to demonstrate the role creative arts, specifically poetry plays in C4D. The findings of this study is to particularly show the way individual voices can be used to promote social justice whilst bringing attention to issues of class discrimination and gender inequality. In this study, I argue that poetry can be a vital mode of protest. The purpose of this study is to determine the strength a single individual has in helping to create change and transformation. The main aim and purpose of this research is to bring a clearer understanding of how poetry in the hands of an advocate can become a strategic communicative tool used to initiate societal change.