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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"confessional poetry."”.
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How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession"
… her poems were largely influenced by American confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath. Chinese critics suggest that Zhai inaugurates the trend of confessional poetry in China. This paper will first contextualize the Chinese translation of American confessional poetry in the Mao and post-Mao …
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Vulgar Moon
… "Speculation and Silence," argues that confessional poetry remains integral to contemporary poetics, though the implications of the term have changed since its "first-generation." Confessional poetry must not be dependent on simply the transmission of sensational details and the …
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Heathens and how they're made
… introduction in which I explain how I craft my poetry. In the introduction, I use examples from both critical and creative sources to identify tools I utilize during the craft process of a poem. The subject matter of the poems within this thesis ranges from speakers pondering childhood moments …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
… The ideas of persona poems, spatial economy, and confessional poetry are all considered in the opening section which introduces the themes – death, physical violence, pornography, and hope. David Mura, Ai, and Adrienne Rich, among others, are poets credited with both inspiration and particular …
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Begetting the Apple: Poems from Women of the Bible
… takes a penetrating look at the concept of confessional poetry, and as such, the effect that personal experience and feelings have on crafting poetry. The project defines this type of lyric poetry as the “revealing of personal and emotional experience within the space of language.” The …
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Transforming the Law of One: Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath from a Kristevan perspective
… Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath often dissociates Confessional poetry from the subject of the writer and her biography, claiming that the artist is in full control of her work and that her art does not have naïve mimetic qualities. However, this study proposes that subjective attributes, namely …
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Cry Wolf
<p><em>Cry Wolf </em>is a confessional poetry collection told in three sections about at-work stalking. This collection also alludes to the Brothers Grimm fairytale, <em>The Little Red Riding Hood. </em>The sections of <em>Cry Wolf </em>include “The Wolf,” which introduces the speaker’s discovery …
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Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton
… discourse in American culture, the rise of confessional poetry, and second-wave feminist interest in female socialization, Bishop, Plath, Rich, and Sexton pursued in their poetry and prose an investigation of self and social formation that was simultaneously rooted in the public exhumation …
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My Education
… the final chapter.</p> <p>The third section, “Confessional Poetry,” is a collection of prose essays modeled after the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Penance. In this work, I confess a sin to correspond to each on the Ten Commandments. This numeric organization (1-10) mirrors the alphabetical …
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Lost in Perception
… such as feelings of self-worthlessness. Confessional in nature these poems derive from familial relationships, domestic abuse, desire, sex and/or a combination of the aforementioned. To an extent, Lost in Perception is a manuscript of a diarist. It features a number of poems concerning a …