Essays about: "Confessional Poetry"

Found 3 essays containing the words Confessional Poetry.

1. 1. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Kajsa Reinholdsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Taylor Swift; biographical performativity; mad studies; mad theory; auto biography; confessional poetry; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE

3. 2. The Flamekeeper : The Confessional Purgation of the Soul in the Poetry of Robert Lowell

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Ryan Jurison; [2020]
   Keywords : Robert Lowell; American poetry; Catholic Theology; Religious Symbolism; Purgation; Purgatory; Land of Unlikeness; Lord Weary s Castle; The Mills of the Kavanaughs; Life Studies; For the Union Dead;

   Abstract : This essay is a critical textual analysis of the poetry of Robert Lowell with focus on religious symbolism used in his work, and the Catholic theology which informed it. This results in a new, contrasting interpretation to the conventional view that he had abandoned his religious focus by mid-career, while accounting for his own assessment that he had not. READ MORE

4. 3. The Confessional Voice of The Female Poet and The Rise of Insta-Poetry

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Yara Gawrieh; [2019]
   Keywords : Insta-Poetry; Instagram; Rupi Kaur; Alicia Cook; Confessional Poetry; digital media; visuality; social activism;

   Abstract : This essay investigates the prospect of confessionalism’s potential resurgence in contemporary poetics through female poets on Instagram and discusses its relevance and likeness to mid 20th century confessional poetry. Two case studies of highly popular Insta- poets Rupi Kaur and Alicia Cook are presented and a close reading of a few of their poems is introduced in order to investigate their adaptation of what I call an over-confessional style that addresses issues such as mental health, family, sexuality, and the perception of the female body. READ MORE