Description of Confessional Poetry

3. Confessional poetry first emerged in to the world in the late 1950’s. The main confessional poets were Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. Confessional poetry is poetry where the poet gets personal and expresses his or her own feelings. Typically, the poet is expressing his or her feelings towards a death, betrayal, love, or any relationship. For example, in Anne Sexton’s, “Again and Again and Again” she describes a broken relationship with her lover and how the relationship has had a deep affect on her. For the most part confessional poems are easy to understand and comprehend. In Sylvia Plath’s, “The Other”, just from the title it is clear to the reader what the poem is going to be about. “The Other” is Sylvia Plath’s description of her cheating lover and the realization of a tainted love. From the confessional poems that I have read and the research that I have done on confessional poetry it is clear that this type of poetry transformed poetry to a more personal note.