confessional poetry
DESCRIPTION
Confessional Poetry. Period 1 Cody Dela Cruz Celestine Largoza Genevieve Libed Karol Rivera. Background Information. Emerged in the 1950s and 60s , during the US Civil Rights movement and women subordination (50s) and women liberation (60s). Written almost like an autobiography. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Confessional PoetryPeriod 1
Cody Dela CruzCelestine LargozaGenevieve Libed
Karol Rivera
![Page 2: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Background Information
• Emerged in the 1950s and 60s , during the US Civil Rights movement and women subordination (50s) and women liberation (60s).• Written almost like an autobiography.• Depression, suicidal tendencies, alcoholism, drug
abuse, and sexual affairs are usually the topics.• “Poetry of the personal or ‘I’ “• Writer usually refers to real events.• Each poet utilizes rhyme, rhythm, meter, tone, and
prosody.
![Page 3: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Sylvia Plath• Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. • Her mother, Aurella Schober, a student at Boston University
married her professor, Otto Plath.• At the age of eight years old her father died from diabetes and due
to his strict attitude and their relationship, he plays a big role on her poetry.
• In 1953 Sylvia Plath attempted a suicide, but was still able to graduate in 1955.
• 1956 she married Ted Hughes and in 1960 she gave birth to Frieda Hughes and in 1962 to Nicholas Hughes. • After Nicholas Hughes birth Ted left her for Assia Gutmann Wevill.• That winter Plath wrote her most famous book, “Ariel.”• In 1963 wrote a note to her neighbor telling him to call a doctor then
committed suicide.
![Page 4: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Notable Works
• The Colossus (1960)• Ariel (1965) • Crossing the Water (1971) • Winter Trees (1972) • The Collected Poems (1981)
![Page 5: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Analysis: Family Reunion (1950)
• Theme: Having to hide who she really is in fear of not being accepted by her family. • This also relates to society because there are times when people
feel like they must mask who they really are so they can fit in with the social norms
• Alliteration: In the poem Plath rhymes the ending words• (Hear, near) (Talk, walk) (Claws, pause) (Heat, beat) (Thin, within) (Meeting, greeting)
(Breath, Elizabeth) (All, Uncle Paul) (Whine, line) (Land, stand)
• Similes:• “Like a diver on a lofty spar of land Atop the flight of stairs I
stand.”• “And hands like nervous butterflies; While rough as splintered
wood”
![Page 6: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Robert Lowell • Born on March 1, 1917 in
Boston, MA• He was violent and bullied
kids his age • He attended Harvard College
for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, received an undergraduate degree in 1940.
• He took graduate courses at Louisiana State University
• He wrote formal poetry containing meter and rhymes.
• He was against WWII, and was imprisoned.
• Had manic depression• Died after a heart attack in
1977.
![Page 7: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Notable Works • Lord Weary's Castle (1946)• 1947 Pulitzer Prize
• Life Studies (1959)• Mixed of free and metered verse
• Imitations (1961)• For the Union Dead (1964)• The Dolphin (1973)• 1974 Pulitzer Prize
• History (1973)• Day by Day (1977)• Free Verse
![Page 8: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Analysis: To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage (1976)• Tone: Sad, regretful, and worried• Shift in tone• Simile: “he stalls above me like an elephant”• Uses Rhyming Couplets• Disputes, Prostitutes• Edge, Pledge• Lust, Unjust• Five,Alive• Tie,Thigh
• Theme: Marital Breakdown• Some marriages are not as perfect as they seem. • Some people find sadness in marriage, leading to loss of interest
but still have a strong feeling for lust.
![Page 9: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
John Berryman • Born October 25, 1914 in
McAlester, Oklahoma• Considered a key figure in the
Confessional school of poetry• He was scarred by his fathers
suicide & wrote about his struggle with it in his Dream Songs
• Berryman went to college at Columbia College where he studied with literary scholar Mark Van Doren
• Credited Van Doren for sparking his interest in writing poetry seriously
• Died January 7, 1972 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
![Page 10: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Notable Works • Best-known work is The Dream Songs
![Page 11: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Analysis: Dream Song 14 (1969)
• Theme: Despite all the luxuries we have, life will always have no meaning.
• Literary Devices:IronySimile
• Tone: Dissatisfied
![Page 12: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Anne Sexton • Born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, MA on November 9, 1928
• Modeled for Boston's Hart Agency for a short time
• Suffered from bipolar disorder, in 1955 she met Dr. Martin Orne who encouraged her to take up poetry – her form of therapy
• Morning of October 4, 1974, Sexton had lunch with poet Maxine Kumin revise last book. On returning she locked herself in her garage, and started the engine of her car, committing suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
![Page 13: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Notable Works• Standard themes of depression, isolation, suicide, and despair,
also issues specific to women, such as menstruation and abortion, masturbation, and adultery.
• Actually books of poems • The Awful Rowing Toward God• The Death Notebooks• To Bedlam and Part Way Back• All My Pretty Ones• Live or Die – Pulitzer prize winning
![Page 14: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Analysis: Wanting to Die
• Figurative language: • Personification• Shift in tone in 9th stanza• Simile• Metaphor
• Theme: Curiosity , Curiosity will not cause us to die
![Page 15: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
MamanLouise Bourgeois
![Page 16: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Precious LiquidsLouise Bourgeois
cylindrical bedroom with installed vials filled with blood, sperm, and tears.
![Page 17: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Quiz
Name 3 of the topics that Confessional poetry is based on.
![Page 18: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Answer
Depression, suicidal tendencies, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual affairs
![Page 19: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Question #2
Who played a big role on Sylvia Plath’s poetry?
![Page 20: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Answer
Her father
![Page 21: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Question#3
Why was Robert Lowell imprisoned?
![Page 22: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Answer
He was against WWII
![Page 23: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Question #4
What event influenced John Berryman’s Dream Songs?
![Page 24: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Answer
His father’s suicide
![Page 25: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Question#5
Dr. Martin Orne encouraged Anne Sexton to take up poetry as a form of
therapy for what?
![Page 26: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Answer
Bipolar disorder
![Page 27: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Question#6
Who is this poet?
![Page 28: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Answer
Anne Sexton
![Page 29: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Question#7
When did Confessional Poetry emerge?
![Page 30: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Answer
1950’s and 60’s during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
![Page 31: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Question#8
What 2 poetry movements formed as a reaction to Confessional poetry?
![Page 32: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Answer
Language and New Formalist poetry
![Page 33: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Question#9
How did the movement get it’s name?
![Page 34: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Answer
M. L. Rosenthal used “confessional” in a review on Robert Lowell’s Life Studies
Life Studies is underlined
![Page 35: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
AP Prompts • Based on the poem given, analyze the
literary techniques, theme, and focus and explain how it is apart of the Confessional Movement. (see next slide)•Write an essay in which you compare and
contrast the themes and techniques used in Family Reunion and Dream Song 14.
![Page 36: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Cinderella by Sylvia PlathThe prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels,Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fanOf silver as the rondo slows; now reelsBegin on tilted violins to span
The whole revolving tall glass palace hallWhere guests slide gliding into light like wine;Rose candles flicker on the lilac wallReflecting in a million flagons' shine,
And glided couples all in whirling tranceFollow holiday revel begun long since,Until near twelve the strange girl all at onceGuilt-stricken halts, pales, clings to the prince
As amid the hectic music and cocktail talk She hears the caustic ticking of the clock.
![Page 37: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Bibliography • http://copof10.umwblogs.org/multimedia-rpt-list/confessiona
l-poetry/
• http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5650• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/10• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sexton• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-sexton• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman
![Page 38: Confessional Poetry](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062222/568163ce550346895dd5159c/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Helpful Links • http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/6• http://www.poemhunter.com/• http://www.poetryfoundation.org/