20th-+Confessional+Poetry

=Confessional Poetry=

[|Confessional poetry] is an American movement that began in the late 1950's to early 1960's that emphasized previously intimate and private feelings and thoughts. The poems that emerged from confessional poets covered such taboo topics as death, depression, suicide, and other morose subjects, often drawn from personal experience. The poets wrote in a manner that was in tune with accepted literary style, yet were revolutionary in their topics. The topics they introduced are prevalent in poetry today.