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Kamala Das A Confessional Poet:A Quest for Identity/Self


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1 Department of English, Ideal Girls College, Manipur University, Manipur, India
     

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Confession is not at all a new genre in literature. As it is the disclosure of some sort, a writer reveals private or clinical matters about herself or himself of art. As a matter of fact, confessional poetry has a very long tradition that begins from the poets like Sappho and Catullus to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Confessions (1764-70) based on religious confessions in the lineage of St. Augustine's Confessions (C. 400 AD) establishing the impression on the history of literature for the psychological outlets of personal feelings. In fact the term “Confessional Poetry” comes from “Confessional Properly” first coined by M.L. Rosenthal in reviewing Robert Lowell's Life Studies (1959).

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Confessional Poetry, Identity, Self, Love, Convent, Spiritual, Conventionalism, Feminist, Image, Psychological Outlets, Male-Oriented Society.
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Elangbam Hemanta Singh
Department of English, Ideal Girls College, Manipur University, Manipur, India

Abstract


Confession is not at all a new genre in literature. As it is the disclosure of some sort, a writer reveals private or clinical matters about herself or himself of art. As a matter of fact, confessional poetry has a very long tradition that begins from the poets like Sappho and Catullus to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Confessions (1764-70) based on religious confessions in the lineage of St. Augustine's Confessions (C. 400 AD) establishing the impression on the history of literature for the psychological outlets of personal feelings. In fact the term “Confessional Poetry” comes from “Confessional Properly” first coined by M.L. Rosenthal in reviewing Robert Lowell's Life Studies (1959).

Keywords


Confessional Poetry, Identity, Self, Love, Convent, Spiritual, Conventionalism, Feminist, Image, Psychological Outlets, Male-Oriented Society.

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