WRIT 109- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRIT 109
• Professor: Friesen Patrick

Document Summary

Sylvia plath: a fundamental feature of plath is that she moved from a poetry detached from her biography to a poetry inseparable from her personal story, poets such as these became know as confessional poets . Snodgrass, anne sexton and robert lowell: best poets also wrote out of their personal experiences, but not confessionally, on the whole. They wrote about their travels and adventures, about relationships, but they did not write as if engage in self-analysis, or psychotherapy: significant this poetry came from america at its peak, in the 1950s. Surface and underbelly of america: the dream of america . Democracy, progress, freedom and family: civil rights and gender equality/atomic weapons/out of control technology, contradictory messages on sexuality in the 50s, advertising (consumption of products) and psychoanalysis (consumption of self) in america. The drive to be happy : born in massachusetts oct. 27, 1932; died in london, feb. 11, 1963.