The term for this poetic movement was coined in a review by M.L. Rosenthal.
The term for this poetic movement was coined in a review by M.L. Rosenthal. A poem from this movement states, "A woman like that is not a woman" and declares, "I have been her kind," while another poem from the same collection from this movement describes its author's mental state "Part way back from Bedlam." A poem from a movement named for this style describes construction near the Boston Aquarium disturbing a monument to (*) Colonel Shaw. A poet from this movement published the collections The Awful Rowing Toward God, while a different, male member of this movement wrote the poem "For the Union Dead." For 10 points, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath belonged to what poetic movement of the 1950s which focused on personal experience and trauma?
The term for this poetic movement was coined in a review by M.L. Rosenthal.
Confessional Poetry 