Confessional Poetry And Poets

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Ankit Kumar Sahu Rajveer

Confessional poetry  Its the poetry of the personal or "I." This style of writing emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and is associated with poets such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and W. D. Snodgrass. Name for a type of post–World War II American poetry. The poet appears to reveal intimate details of his or her life and a fragile, fragmented sense of self. Confessional Poetry: Robert Lowell, whose book of poems Life Studies (1959) influenced Plath’s Ariel (1965), a collection of brilliant, angry, suicidal revelations, proved to be prophetic: two years before their publication, she took her own life. Sexton’s- To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), is indicative of the personal anguish that motivated her poetry. --Kamala Das's poem, "An Introduction."