ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Penis Envy
20 Apr 2015
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To mark the 50 anniversary of bell jar, they asked contemporary figures to comment. Strange desire to have a sylvia plath in adams song (not only object to be possessed but also a type of girl of which there are multiple) Plath sexton and rich often as confessional poets. Uses first person voice with little recognizable difference between speaker and poet. Highly emotional in tone, autobiographical in content and narrative in structure. Gives us details about the tempestuous lives of poets, often deal with terrible emotions like death. Response to repressive culture in the late 1950s. Robert lowell founder of confessional poetry, sexton and plath took *** with him in 1959. Ariel right before death, poetic creativity, hughes published her poems and lowell wrote foreword. ***comment reminds us of keeping speaker and poet distinct. We do not live poetry we craft poetry, we can edit poetry but not experiences.
