Confessional poetry

“After Plath’s 1963 suicide many critics examined the writer’s different facets, contrasting her put-together, polite, and dexterous self with her raging, explosively-creative inner self” (“Sylvia”, Poems). Plath’s career in writing is explained in all of her poems from her life experiences. She was a very successful writer and attended great colleges. The collection of poems and novel she had written throughout her life were very personal. She wrote one of her most interesting poems, “Mirror”,…

Their involvement in the world is deferred until they are ready to symbolize their experience through language. Jennings is aware of the dangers and delusions implicit in the creation of another system of thought, and she relies on the peaceful nature of this turning point in history to suggest the possibility a symbolic ordering of experience based on something other than the power ratio between predator and prey. In “The Animals’ Arrival,” Jennings uses the flexible form of free verse to…

the end comes, that the Earth won't stay. He also could have been talking about childhood in his poem. When you are little, everything is new to you, and when it's not new anymore, it can be sad. The poem is a descriptive poem that could also be confessional because of his reference about the end of the world and childhood. He wrote about personal experience about how he thought the world was going to end. He also wrote about childhood, and how nothing new or great can stay forever. He titled…

close reading of literary texts, and understand how the literary devices are used to convey the poet’s purpose. Reading through the resources given from teachers, and analyzing the poems on my own, broadened my analytical skill especially on the poetries which used to be my weakness. Also, writing comparative essay also led me to have in depth understanding of how the literary devices have effects on the readers. The poet is can be analyzed through various aspects. The simple base idea like…

role as an expressive commentator on, and visionary hierophant for, communal experience and social change and dislocation” (An Sionnach 213). Discuss, making detailed reference to Meehan’s poetry. The aim of this essay will be to investigate the theme of death and transformation in Paula Meehan’s decorative poetry collection. I will also shed light on Anne Fogarty’s controversial description of Meehan as an ‘impersonal, expressive commentator’, and with that in mind construct a rational…

American oral literature / oral tradition - European explorers’ letters, diaries, reports, etc., such as Christopher Columbus’s letters about his voyage to the “New world”. - Anglo (New England) settlers’ books, sermons, journals, narratives, and poetry Native American / American Indian oral literature / oral tradition creation stories（起源神话） trickster tales（恶作剧者传奇） rituals / ceremonies（典仪） songs / chants（曲词） Anglo Settlers’ Writings Highly religious and pragmatic - John…

Theodore Roethke's "In a Dark Time," it is necessary to first consider the poet. Roethke was known to have often lived in "dark times". Whether it be emotional, spiritual, or mental the struggle was a familiar one marked by periods of psychosis. This confessional poem may very well be a window into such a time of Roethke's life. A window through which Roethke reveals that darkness, as daunting as it may be, is not eternal and though one may not emerge into light, one may emerge into wholeness. …

Poetry is the abundance of life and the most incarnate of languages we use, expressing ourselves in a free and unrestricted form — this is what Ezra Pound means by “Make It New.” However, to create something fresh and unique, we need to look back into the past in order to know what rules and conventions to smash. Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden along with many others are the pioneers of the Modernist era, innovating free verse, intellectual statements, and universal human significance. In this…

Triggered by the hope-filled thrill of a new lover, the structure of the poem correspondingly reflects the galvanized transformation of the speaker 's body. Anatomically, the poem is divided into four stanzas with five lines in each stanza, establishing a sense of uniformity within the poem 's structure. Each quintet concludes in an end-stopped line, two of the four final lines including an exclamation point that energizes the poem and, subsequently, the audience. The end of one stanza denotes a…

“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave” Born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in St. Louis and Stamps Arkansans, Maya Angelou became one of the most renowned and influential voices of her time. Multi-talented barely seems to cover the depth and breadth of Maya Angelou's accomplishments .She was an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet. In Angelou’s work a lot of thoughtful reflections are going on.…