The Poems for Teenagers through the Socio-literary Approach

Abstract

This article aims to study Thai poems for teenagers through the socio-literary approach which encompassed texts, writers, readers, and the publishers' roles. Yaimai publishing is the focal case study of this article. The findings reveal that Thai poems for teenagers have their own uniqueness. The texts comprise natural imagery, punctuations, handwriting, and unique pictures. The relations between the writers and the readers have a particular characteristic, that is, the reader can become the writer and editor by employing the texts as a means to reach that purpose. However, the active relations is manipulated by the publisher that regulate the writing conventions, creates and patronizes the writer, and promotes the marketing. It is therefore admitted that the rise and the decline of that poems for tecnagers depend on the influence of the publisher that functions as an organization which protects the literary.