You waited for their essays, and when a good critical essay came out it had the excitement of a new imaginative work.In the final years of his life, Paul Klee’s productivity skyrocketed.
His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry. It may make you bolder when you do write.I think it’s impossible to give a general answer.
Robert Lowell was born in 1917, the son of the famous Lowells of Boston, a family that already boasted two poets, James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell.He followed family tradition by enrolling at Harvard, but after two years – and upon the advice of his psychiatrist – transferred to Kenyon College.
(18) The purpose of a woman is to ‘do whatever you tell it’ or to ‘marry it’. (3) Before then, the subject matter of poetry implicitly included little of the poet’s private life, instead focusing upon public issues using a detached persona. You can get expert at teaching and be crude in practice. The suggestion of incest is embellished in Plath’s implication that she married a man just like her father: I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look and a love of the rack and the screw. Hass went on to become a renowned professor of poetry, but would still teach, from time to time, courses on narrative film, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, or, recently, Nabokov and Naipaul.Hass’s smile is sweet and a little bit sad. When All My Pretty Ones was published, it was Sexton’s ‘direct treatment of the female body in such poems as “The Operation” that attracted the interest of reviewers.’ (39) However, certain male reviewers could not cope with these frank ‘confessions that involved the emotional and bodily functions of women. He took graduate courses at Louisiana State University where he studied with Robert Penn Warren … (54) Even lust is represented in terms of the acquisition of wealth with the image of two cars being intimate. He studied at Harvard University and Kenyon College. As Dr. Orne suggested, Sexton’s memories of child abuse may have been invented ‘when she was reading and writing about incest’. On March 1, 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston's oldest and most prominent families. Witness the making of a new American poetics.A daughter considers her father’s lifelong friendship with the poet he once called "the most unlovable man ever. The new ‘confessional’ poems removed the mask that poets had been hiding behind and provided an insight into the private lives of the poets. Hass spent his early years in San Francisco before the family moved in 1945 across the Golden Gate Bridge to San Rafael, a small town in then-rural Marin County. Certainly the danger of teaching is that it’s much too close to what you’re doing—close and not close. It’s a course I teach every year, but the material changes. (26) What remained repressed for Sexton was her memories of sexual abuse, whether real or imagined. And context, itself one of Hass’s great subjects, became a touchstone as the interview unfolded, too.The boldness is ambiguous. If I’m on fire they dance around it and cook marshmallows (30)Critics have argued whether or not the poems of Lowell, Sexton and Plath are ‘confessional’. Sexton took this hidden aspect of life and presented it in her poems. Lowell grew up in Boston. I felt there was an occasion for that, and I had something to say about it. Later, however, Sylvia ‘begins to tell the truth.’ (9) For instance, in ‘The Colossus’ Plath presents the image of her father, but not the full extent of her feelings toward him, which are revealed in ‘Daddy’. (53)What is unique about Lowell is that he grounds his personal poetry in the hidden past of the Lowell family – he focuses on ‘the family disgraces, tensions, neuroses, and failures.’ (51) The hidden past is valuable to Lowell for what it has to teach us about the present. In particular, his nervous breakdowns are caused by memories from his past that haunt him. (13)Repression was a key theme for Sexton, which is reinforced by the comments of Robin Becker a former student of Sexton’s, who explained how Sexton used to ‘“unrepressed”’ the class.
What was important to Lowell was that the reader ‘“was to believe he was getting the real Robert Lowell.”’ (66) For example, In ‘My Last Afternoon’ Lowell only presents the details that he would like the reader to know. In it, there is the threat that ‘This screwball might kill his wife.’ (64)M. L. Rosenthal ‘first applied the term confession to Robert Lowell’s work’ (1).