Confessional poetry is based on the ideas of being raw with the audience, expressing the inner thoughts, feeling, and experiences that leave one happy, drained, exasperated, and devastated. The emotions and profound realizations these women have put into words have given any individual who identifies as a woman, and others who simply can identify with […]
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Instagram Poets Give a Full 360 of Who They Are
Selfie-Help: The Multimodal Appeal of Instagram Poetry https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lili-Paquet/publication/332428398_Selfie-Help_The_Multimodal_Appeal_of_Instagram_Poetry/links/619e9978f1d62445716821db/Selfie-Help-The-Multimodal-Appeal-of-Instagram-Poetry.pdf Lili Pâquet writes on the influence of social media poets and how they are reshaping literary form and reaching new audiences in her article “Selfie-Help: The Multimodal Appeal of Instagram Poetry” (296). She begins by discussing the difference of pen on paper to the typing to […]
Steven Willis and “Beat Writers”
Beat Writers- Steven Willis Willis introduces this poem with “Beat Writers” as the title and dedicated for Baraka and Ginsberg. Considering that Baraka was “arguably, the most significant BAN artist/theorist and an essential figure in twentieth-century American literature,” paired with Ginsberg, who tends to be almost the father of American Contemporary Poetry, I feel as […]
It is More Than Just “This Line”
Based upon Berstein’s article “Artifice of Absorption” this poem is absorptive. His use of diction in the poem address the poem itself entire, saying “This line is..” or “This line has…” He does not use any direct address to the reader throughout his lines, simply only referring to the poem and ideas that can be […]
Oh To Be A Girl Peeling Apples
This poem feels impersonal at first, simply describing the girl and making visual connections to both the girl and the apples, yet when you move toward the end, Salter seems to paint the apple and the actions of peeling and prepping the apples as more. She relates the deconstruction of said apples to the “…spiral/ […]
Sonia Sanchez and her poem “blk rhetoric”
Sonia uses diction very purposefully throughout the poem “blk / rhetoric.” She creates a poem that is based on “the Black condition as I see it” (66). Using her preface of the poems and pairing that with how she leaves out letters in black, using the abbreviation for this every time she references the word […]
Parvin’s “Violence, Rage, and Self-Hurt in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry”
In this essay, Parvin Ghasemi discusses Sylvia Plath’s poetry in regard to the violence, rage, and self-hurt seen throughout. He progresses through “The Colossus,” “Daddy,” “Medusa,” and “Ariel,” which I have linked in between paragraphs. As I read this essay, I felt as though having a reading of the poems helped understand his critical analysis […]
Creative Post Imitating The Language by Robert Creely
I am so angry. Every time you come around, destruction is in your wake. Words create life, yet you just drain us away. I am so angry. You just focus on yourself, not caring, Unfeeling, except for your words. Why do your words carry such weight, but we are […]
The Quarrel- Language and Format
Through DiPrima’s language and format, she conveys her anger of her partner in a way that is spread through every line. Her language is informal, relying more on a conversational type of written word. This feels like a poem you would write in your diary, angry at your partner who is just not understanding your […]