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Presentation on Confessional Poetry

Presentation on Confessional Poetry

Confessional Poetry Movement started in the 1950sPoets write about their own personal experience in an open, direct style Examples: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath. This lecture briefly describe on Confessional Poetry with some examples. Confessional poetry is 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.