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The confessional poets also worked in opposition to the idealization of domesticity in the 1950s, by revealing unhappiness in their own homes. [5] The school of "confessional poetry" was associated with poets who redefined American poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, and W. D. Snodgrass.
Confessional writing usually involves the disclosure of personal revelations and secrets, often in first-person, non-fiction forms such as diaries and memoirs. [2] Confessional writing often employs colloquial speech and direct language to invoke an immediacy between reader and author.
Later in the volume (p. 128) poet Joanne Kyger comments: "The Language school I felt was a kind of an alienating intellectualization of the energies of poetry. It carried it away from the source. It may have been a housecleaning from confessional poetry, but I found it a sterilization of poetry."
Poetry as Confession' was an influential 1959 article written by M. L. Rosenthal, reviewing the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell. The review is credited with being the first application of the term of confession to an approach to the writing of poetry.
The Concrete poetry was an avant-garde movement started in Brazil during the 1950s, characterized for extinguishing the general conception of poetry, creating a new language called ''verbivocovisual''. [75] its significant figures are Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, and Décio Pignatari.
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
May 17—Arthur Sze, a National Book Award winner and former Santa Fe poet laureate, sees translating poems as the deepest form of exploring them. "I learned my craft through translation," he says.
In the English-language modernism ends with the turn towards confessional poetry in the work of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, among others. [10] Poets, like Robert Frost , Wallace Stevens , and E. E. Cummings also went on to produce work after World War II.