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Encyclopedia > Confessional poetry

A confessional poet traffics in intimate, and perhaps derogatory, information about him or herself, in poems about illness, sexuality, despondence and the like. The Confessionalist label was applied to a number of poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.


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Confessional poet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (665 words)
Later developments in confessional poetry begin to blur the distinctions between a public and a private activism.
Because of this, confessional poetry is a popular form of creative writing that many people enjoy not only to read but to embark upon.
Some have argued that confessional free verse poetry has become the dominant approach in contemporary poetry, and that it has sparked both a reaction toward the more avant garde LANGUAGE poetry and the more traditional New Formalism.
American Literature: Poetry - MSN Encarta (3048 words)
Confessional poetry broke away from modernism’s dedication to impersonality and reopened poetry to intense self-exploration and frank revelation of personal experiences.
Although the early confessional poets rarely used their poetry to explore political issues, their investigations of how personal identity is constructed laid the ground for a more openly political poetry that emerged in America in the late 1950s and was still written at the century’s close.
Confessional poetry in general served as a counterforce to the prevailing mood of the country in the 1950s and 1960s, when the family was presented in the mass media as the source of stability and happiness.
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