Confessional Poem

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A Confessional Poem is a poem that focuses 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.



References

2018

  1. I. Ousby ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 199
  2. . Confessional poetry is the poetry of the personal or “I.” Postmodernist Poetry: a Movement or an Indulgence? , by Peter R. Jacoby
  3. W.D. Snodgrass, Poet biography; Poets.org
  4. I. Ousby ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 199