Confessional poet

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1. Confessional Poem Pema Dorji , 07151515

2. Outline Definition Features of confessional poem Traits of Plath’s Confessional Poem Examples of Sylvia's Confessional poem.

3. Definition The genuine strength of confessional poets, combined with the pity evoked by their high suicide rate, a romantic confusion between poetic excellence and inner torment.

4. Definition cont. Confessional poetry is a type of lyric and narrative verse. It deals with intimate experiences and facts of poets own life.

5. Element and Style Private experiences with feelings about death, trauma, depression, and relationships were addressed in this type of poetry. “I” is used more than “you ”.

6. Confessional Poetry and its Features Reveals something normally hidden or unspoken . Explores subject matter that isn’t usually discussed out loud; challenges the line between acceptable and not acceptable, private and public.

7. Cont … Focuses on personal life: family, relationships, childhood . Focuses on personal neuroses, personal “issues,” illness, fears, conflicts, loneliness .

8. Traits of Plath’s Confessional Poetry

9. 1. Intimate subject matter F ocuses on subject matter once considered taboo. Issues like drug abuse, sexual guilt, alcoholism, suicide and depression , which were typically considered shameful or embarrassing, were discussed openly. For example, in her poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath writes about how much she hates her father: “Daddy, I have had to kill you,” and later, “I have always been scared of you.”

10. 2. First Person Narration According to Poets.org, C onfessional poetry is the poetry of the “I.” A llowing the reader to delve closely into the thoughts and feelings of the author.

11. Cont. According to Edward Byrne , a published poet and English professor at Valparaiso University, confessional poets use first-person narration to “ widen the scope of the poem” and as a “tool to increase a reader’s emotional identification with the writer.” In essence, confessional poems invite the reader to live vicariously through the poem.

12. 3. Autobiographical by Design By nature, confessional poems are autobiographical, meant to record dirty and often depressing thoughts of an author, which is now commonly practice in countless autobiographies, memoirs and essays. However , unlike other “ I ” poems, in confessional poems, the speaker doesn’t just represent the poet; rather, the poet and the speaker are one in the same and interchangeable, and the speaker draws upon his or her own life as the sole form of reference.

13. 4. Lyrical Craftsmanship It may be easy to assume that confessional poets simply put pen to paper and poured out their feelings in a free-flowing, not described. However, quite the opposite is true.

14. Cont. According to Poets.org, the original confessional poets maintained a “high level of craftsmanship” and paid careful attention to the use of rhythm and intonation in their poems. W.D. Snodgrass in particular, long considered a “father” of confessional poetry, was a master of literary technique, incorporating everything from metaphor to allusion to aphorism in his works.

15. Plath on confessional poetry. “I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, b ut must say I cannot sympathize with these cries from heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is. I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.” http://www.sylviaplath.de/[lath/uroff.html

16. Examples of Sylvia Plath's confessional poetry. “Daddy, I have had to kill you. you died before I had time— marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Fresco seal”- from Daddy

17. “I’m no more your mother, Then the cloud that distils a mirror….”- Morning Song “I am Silver and exact” “I am not c ruel only truthful”- Mirror .

18. “I have to live with overnight” “I can’t keep away from it” “it is dark, dark” “small, taken one by one, but my god, together” – The Arrival of the Bee Box. “if I could bleed, or sleep!”- Poppies in July

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