Confessional

The poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye is a great source to explore the basic principles in Arab-American literature. Her poetry contains many aspects of the Arab and American cultures, she uses poetry to narrate her own experience and thoughts about these two worlds. Nye's poetry focuses on three major concepts: identity, multiculturalism, and coexistence. Nye clarifies identity in post 9/11 in the poem "Blood", and relates the incident to her…

In poems “The Lighters” and “Nursing,” Rennie McQuilkin articulates the variety and complexity of his feelings towards the sickening and passing of his mother. To vividly illustrate his sentimental attachments, McQuilkin extensively and effectively utilizes literary techniques such as contrasts, diction, and allusions in these two poems, leaving an accessible yet woeful depiction of his desperation and resignation in response to his mother’s suffering. McQuilkin frequently employs sharp…

Emily Dickenson’s poem titled My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – is one of the many poetic works she created in her lifetime. The staple ambiguity of her poetry is ever present in this poem, which reflects the eccentric nature of Dickenson herself. This poem reflect the anger within her life and show how she is carried away by the male personified version of her anger and becomes an instrument of his. This poem offers an inside look into Dickenson’s psyche, as it show that she feels empowered by…

In her poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath illustrates the struggle between a victimized daughter and a towering, menacing father. Written at the end of her life, this work of art shines out among Plath’s other poems while still relating to her previous works. Throughout her life, Plath experienced many life changing events, taking what she learned from them and amplifying the knowledge by writing it down into a beautiful piece of art. The resulting poems and novels reflects the deep wounds embedded…

A person who feels abandonment by a loved one eventually will begin to feel alone. Poet, Sylvia Plath was far too familiar with this feeling. In many of her writings, such as “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Plath wrote about her depressing feelings, especially towards her husband. In the story, she explains looking at the disgusting wallpaper and the feeling of being lonely. Towards the ending, it goes to explain her happiness began to develop through her children. Many of her writings include emotional…

(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…

looks into Jennings poetry from confessional and autobiographical point of view. In Collected Poems (1986), Jennings preserves a number of poems dealing with the relationship between the composition of art and the experience of human suffering but she deletes most of the poems dealing specifically with psychic disturbances, poems such as “Madness,” “The Jump,” and “Suicides” which could be associated with the excesses of the confessional mode. Definition of Confessional Poetry: The Glossary of…

called confessional theology. Therefore, if all have a gospel, then they must exercise faith in it. How a person seeks to live out their confessional theology is called their functional theology. A person’s functional theology, if he or she is saved, can say quite a bit about…

Confessional poetry is often dark or unpleasant in nature, and possibly could be viewed as obscene to some readers. Confessional poetry emphasizes the intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about mental illness, sexuality, and despondence (Baldick 2008). The confessional poet label was applied to a number of poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and John Berryman. A confessional poem is quite…

In present day confessional music, the hypocrisy and gender discrimination has changed little over the years, despite what people may think. Taylor Swift, a female songwriter and performer who often gets criticized by the media for writing about her relationships, is an example of this. In fact, she even plays on her known crazy ex-girlfriend image in her music video for “Blank Space,” where she depicts herself as unhinged (Swift). While this song lyrically and video visually appear to be…