Author(s): Dr. Richa Smriti

Abstract: Poetry is the communication of experiences in the form of art. The experiences which defined as poetry of the personal is called confessional poetry. Confessional poetry is the frank expression of personality. This poetry is of self-revealing in nature as it seeks to reveal the poets' state of mind and their feelings. Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das, Anne Sexton and Andrienne Rich are best examples of confessional poets. They universalized the sufferings and surmounting pain of womanhood through the lens of their own experiences in their lives. Their works demonstrate the tragedy of life of being a woman in a patriarchal based structure of society. In subject matter, confessional poets concentrate on the history of their own lives.

Keywords: Confessional, Poetry, Poets, Self-revealing, Expression, Own lives

Article Info: Received: 11 Aug 2024; Received in revised form: 09 Sep 2024; Accepted: 14 Sep 2024; Available online: 20 Sep 2024

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.95.10