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INTRODUCTION
He tried to sing, singing not to remember his true life of lies and to remember his lying life of truths. -Octavio Paz, "Poet's Epitaph1
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Is poetry autobiography? The Confessional ^school of American poetry has gained so much acceptance and, thus, power in our culture that it dictates the way many people read poetry $ttf& promotes Aie idea that the self, the poet, is imbedded in fajtM&X poetry, ^fytta/fbr many readers, poetry has become/i^/t /Qri!$ an expression of the individual poet's true self, bu-t all subjects, themes, l^< s *
and$storiesCiolcLin a/poet^ poems are expressions of actual experiences of the \,' ^—
& v1 'J' Poet- Tne poetic voices in the work are the poet's voice and/or fragments of the
9 /
V
poet speaking of his/her self, x0 know the poetry is to know the true self and actual
life
experiences'
of
the
poet.
r u i i fi ^ ^
/)"
The question of whether or not poetry is autobiography is closely tied to the question does poetry have a gender? Some scholarship on poetry, such as psychoanalytical and French feminist theory, relies on a crucial assumption: that language—and poetry by extension—has a gender. Language is thought of in terms of being male and female; there are male sentences and female sentences, male poetic forms and female poetic forms. For example, traditional poetic forms and conventions are considered to be male and to exclude the female other. For the female poet to write the true self then, she must write female language that represents the female body, life, and experience.
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INTRODUCTION
He tried to sing, singing not to remember his true life of lies and to remember his lying life of truths. -Octavio Paz, "Poet's Epitaph1
a
N
Is poetry autobiography? The Confessional ^school of American poetry has gained so much acceptance and, thus, power in our culture that it dictates the way many people read poetry $ttf& promotes Aie idea that the self, the poet, is imbedded in fajtM&X poetry, ^fytta/fbr many readers, poetry has become/i^/t /Qri!$ an expression of the individual poet's true self, bu-t all subjects, themes, l^< s *
and$storiesCiolcLin a/poet^ poems are expressions of actual experiences of the \,' ^—
& v1 'J' Poet- Tne poetic voices in the work are the poet's voice and/or fragments of the
9 /
V
poet speaking of his/her self, x0 know the poetry is to know the true self and actual
life
experiences'
of
the
poet.
r u i i fi ^ ^
/)"
The question of whether or not poetry is autobiography is closely tied to the question does poetry have a gender? Some scholarship on poetry, such as psychoanalytical and French feminist theory, relies on a crucial assumption: that language—and poetry by extension—has a gender. Language is thought of in terms of being male and female; there are male sentences and female sentences, male poetic forms and female poetic forms. For example, traditional poetic forms and conventions are considered to be male and to exclude the female other. For the female poet to write the true self then, she must write female language that represents the female body, life, and experience.
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