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Confessional Poets

Poets who explore the autobiographical nature of themselves through their poetry and teachings. That their 'self' is a central being that has extensional emphasis on the reality of 'existence'. Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass. 'Blackberries/Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes/Ebon in the hedges, fat/With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers./I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me./They accommodate themselves to my milkbottle, flattening their sides.' (Sylvia Plath 'Blackberrying' 23 September 1961)'But suicides have a special language./Like carpenters they want to know which tools./They never ask why build.' (Anne Sexton 'Wanting to Die')'The only "unhistoric" soul to come here/was Father, now buried beneath his recent/unweathered pink-veined slice of marble./Even the Latin of his Lowell motto:/Occasionem cognosce,/seemed too businesslike and pushing here,/where the burning cold illuminated/the hewn inscriptions of Mother's relatives:/twenty or thirty Winslows and Starks./Frost had given their names a diamond edge..../In the grandiloquent lettering on Mother's coffin,/Lowell had been misspelled LOVEL./The corpse/was wrapped like panettone in Italian tinfoil.' (Robert Lowell 'Sailing Home from Rapallo')

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