Hitesh Raviya, Richa Mishra
‘Confessional’ is an
adjective first applied to the poems of the American poets Robert Lowell, Anne
Sexton, Sylvia Plath, W.D. Snodgrass, John Berryman and Theodore Roethke to
refer to the autobiographical nature of their work. The confessional poet
considers the world, an extension of herself. All confessional poetry springs
from the need to confess; confessional poets bare their soul and body and hide
nothing between their self and their direct expression of that self. They put
no restrictions on subject matter, no matter how personal. Usually anti-elegant
and anti- establishment, confessional poems are almost like war-cries triumphing
over pain and defeat. The best confessional poems are more than confessions:
they are revelations, about their creator’s personal vexations, dilemmas and
predicaments, and above all about the human condition. This review work tries
to prove that confessional poetry was always present in Writings by women in
India. This work is a literature review of known writings by women in India.
Women
writings, History, India, Oppression, Confessionalism.
VOL.12, ISSUE No.2, March 2020