Re: Confessional Poetry

Will Dockery wrote:

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There's elements of Confessional poetry in almost all of my poems.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessional_poetry
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Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that
emerged in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s.[1]
It is sometimes also classified as a form of Postmodernism.[2] It has
been described as poetry of the personal or "I", focusing on extreme
moments of individual experience, the psyche, and personal trauma,
including previously and occasionally still taboo matters such as mental
illness, sexuality, and suicide, often set in relation to broader social
themes.[3]
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The confessional poet's engagement with personal experience has been
explained by literary critics as an effort to distance oneself from the
horrifying social realities of the twentieth century. Events like the
Holocaust, the Cold War, and existential threat brought by the
proliferation of nuclear weapons had made public matters daunting for
both confessional poets and their readers.[4] The confessional poets
also worked in opposition to the idealization of domesticity in the
1950s, by revealing unhappiness in their own homes.[5]
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The school of "confessional poetry" was associated with several poets
who redefined American poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert
Lowell, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, and W.
D. Snodgrass.
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Reposted for focus.

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Well worth another spotlight presentation...!