Confessional poetry

Indian English poetry since 1970 has been characterized by failure, hopes and despair, immediacy and anger, search and struggle for identity, human relationship and growing sense of dissatisfaction. It is a kind of strong reaction against romanticism and idealism of its predecessors. It not only tries to establish individuality and reconceptualise values but also tries to redefine culture. Poetry consists of verbal and contextual features, choice of words (diction), syntactic and semantic features. In this confessional poetry also plays a very important role. Confessional poetry” designates a type of narrative and lyric verse, given impetus by American Robert Lowell’s life studies (1959), which deals with the facts and intimate mental and physical experiences of the poet’s own life. Confessional poems were written by Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and including Kamala Das. The confessional poet deals in their poetry with personal emotional experiences…

an crucial role in both the poetic creation and the poetry of confessional poets. Firstly, these six confessional poets will be studied from a pathography perspective. Based on the research on the (auto)biographies of confessional poets, most, or even all, of them used to be diagnosed as mentally ill. Plath began to suffer the symptoms of severe depression which ultimately lead to her death since her undergraduate year. One…

“Ariel” Sylvia Plath’s Ariel is one of the most renowned collections of poetry from the twentieth century. These poems were written during the last years of Plath’s life before she committed suicide and gives us a unique insight into the inner workings of her mind. Her estranged husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, published Ariel in 1965 after Plath’s suicide. In these poems Plath transcends to become her true self; the tone is cool, amused, bitter, and unnervingly charming. This collection is…

She wrote many different poems speaking about the emotional turmoil she endured. "The poems became Ariel, the manuscript of which Plath assembled before her death and that would go on to speak for her after her voice was silenced" (Steinberg 27). She could not handle the stress that had come from the emotional turmoil of the affair and divorce, along with raising her children alone; she committed suicide in 1963. "Like Anne Sexton, her contemporary, and other confessional poets, including Robert…

Confession is fundamental in our Christian faith. Through confession, our sin is revealed and we are able to stand in front God and our brothers as a new person as our sin has been confessed and washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ. Confession is a blessing from God. It is one of the opportunities God gives to the Christians to break “into the darkness and seclusion of the heart”(p112). Although confession exposes wickedness, it helps one to have better relationship with God. Confession is…

While discussing confessions, the authors of this article have come across an interesting topic. There have been a variety of studies done that have analyzed the reason behind why someone confesses to doing certain transgressions. But there hasn’t been a study done to look into the extent one confesses. Does one fully confess to their transgressions or are there occasions where they only partially confess. People often confess in order to make themselves feel better and less guilty. When one is…

canvas. The paint strokes were smooth with sharp lines, unlike the work of Impressionist painters. The setting is in a chapel similar to the styles we have studied in our class. Specifically, I was reminded of Andrea Palladio’s floor plan for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore (Janson 's History of Art). In the painting at the left of the confessional you can see what looks like the altar in the distance. The focal point of the painting is the matriarch with her children and grandchildren…

Anne Sexton believed that the most interesting poetry was written out of personal experience. Everything she had been through, her hospitalization, her affairs, her insanity, the loss of her parents, and great-aunt, gave her things to write about. She uses poetry as one of her outlet. She writes out her problems. Her writing was a part of her therapy. As a child, Anne Sexton had to be the center of attention, "a demanding child" (Self-Portrait in Letter 3). When Anne was younger, she…

Intro: (radio station mix effect) Radio host: Your listening to Poetry radio station, coming to you live every Monday night from 5 with new, music and discussions. First up we have Hayley to talk burning poetry. Hayley: Hey guys and welcome to burning poetry, where poetry is the bonfire of discussion. Tonight’s episode is “shackled” all about depression and mental illness. Although not always easily detected or obvious, mental illness is alive and can have devastating effects on sufferers. The…

This essay will argue the similarities and differences of two superior female poets, who left a big mark on world poetry. The two American poets are Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. These two poets have many things in common, like their close writing styles, as well as the ability to strike a deep chord within the reader, by using metaphors in order to describe their personal life events and feelings too. Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) is 21 years younger than Elizabeth…