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Confessional Poetry Vivid & personal 1950’s & 1960’s Revealing the self through poetry American poets

Confessional Poetry Vivid & personal 1950’s & 1960’s Revealing the self through poetry American poets

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Confessional Poetry• Vivid & personal• 1950’s & 1960’s• Revealing the self through poetry• American poets

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Robert Lowell (1917-1977) W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)John Berryman (1914-1972) M.L. Rosenthal (1917-1996)

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Daddy, I have had to kill you.You died before I had time--Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,Ghastly statue with one gray toeBig as a Frisco seal

Sylvia Plath

All the world like a woolen loveronce did seem on Henry’s side.Then came a departure.Thereafter nothing fell out as it might or ought.I don’t see how Henry, priedopen for all the world to see, survived.

John Berryman

The left-handed child of divorced parents,What could he do but makeevery triumph a mare’s nestand all delight a stammering mistake?

M.L. Rosenthal