Confessional Poetry Flashcards
One of the most well known confessional poet is
Uses a ? That echoes
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Sing song rhythm/ nursery rhymes of childhood
Confessional poet of this generation ?
Major work
Consists of ? About a character named ? And his friend ?
Many of the poems contain elements of berrymans?
What poem
John Berryman The dream songs 385 poems Henry and me. Bones Own life and trauma (father divide) Dream song and I
To speak of woe that is in marriage by?
ROBERT Lowell
To speak of woe that is in marriage Hopped up husband does what This screwball might My only thought is Ties what to his thigh Stalls above me like
Cruise for prositute Kill his wife then take the pledge How to keep alive Ten dollars and his car key Elephant
What quote is at the beginning of to speak of woe that is in marriage
Schopenhauer
Skunk hour by
For who
ROBERT Lowell
Elizabeth bishop
Skunk hour Whose hermit Her son is a Thrusting for hierarchical privacy of She buys up Lost Fairy decorator : no money in ... rather Car radio I myself am Skunk puts head in
Nautilus islands Bishop Queen Victoria’s century Buys up all eyesores Summer millionaire In his work/ rather marry Love o careless love I myself am hell
Sour cream
The armadillo for ? By who
ROBERT Lowell
Elizabeth bishop
The armadillo This time of year what appears Hard to tell them from Venus going down or Last night another Pair of What left the scene And then a? What to their surprise A weak mailed ?
Illegal fire balloons Stars Mars Another big one fell Owls Armadillo Baby rabbit shirt eared Fist clenched ignorant against the sky
Ariel by
Sylvia Plath
Ariel Eye the cauldron of Composed on Suicide date Ariel
Morning
October 27 1962 (30th birthday)
February 11 1963
Owned bourse by this name
Lady Lazarus by
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus One year in every Skin bright as Face is I am only This is number First time it happened she was how old and it was an Second time Dying is I eat men like
10 Nazi lampshade Jew linen 30 Number 3 10: accident Meant it to not come back Is an art Air
The truth the dead know by
For who
Anne Sexton
Mother born March 1902 died March 1959
Father born February 1900 died June 1959
The truth the dead know Drive to Sea swigs like No ones Dead are more like They refuse to be
Cape Iron gate No ones alone Stone than sea of it stopped To be blessed
