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Orientador: Eric Mitchell Sabinson / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T22:27:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_RenatoMarquesde_M.pdf: 14631472 bytes, checksum: 3264df22d3993a17a71974e8b876c591 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Numa tentativa de compreensão do fenômeno literário conhecido como POESIA CONFESSIONAL, esta dissertação tem por objetivo estudar a obra da poeta Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974). O exame de um dos rumos que a poesia norteamericana tomou desde 1945 serve como ponto de partida e pretexto para uma análise crítica sistemática que resulta na elaboração de uma antologia traduzida e comentada de poemas de Sexton, tida como uma das mais representativas figuras da poesia dos EUA no século XX. / Abstract: In order to understand the literary phenomenon known as Confessional Poetry, this dissertation examines the work of Anne Sexton (1928-1974), regarded as one of the most representative American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. The exploration of this vein or sub-genre, one of the directions taken by the American poetry since 1945, serves as a starting point and pretext for a systematic critical analysis of Sexton's work, resulting in an annotated anthology of translations of her poems. / Mestrado / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

This dissertation is a collection of poems preceded by a critical preface. The preface considers emotional immediacy—or the idea of enacting in readers an emotional drama that appears genuine and simultaneous with the speaker's experience—and furthermore argues against the common criticism that accessibility means simplicity, ultimately reifying the importance of accessibility in contemporary poetry. The preface is divided into an introduction and three sections, each of which explores a different technique for creating immediacy, exemplified by Robert Lowell’s "Waking in the Blue,” Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus,” and Louise Gluck's "Eros." The first section examines "Waking in the Blue,” and the poem's systematic inflation and deflation of persona as a means of revealing complexity a ambiguity. The second section engages in a close reading of "Lady Lazarus,” arguing that the poem's initially deliberately false erodes into sincerity, creating immediacy. The third section considers the continued importance of persona beyond confessionalism, and argues that in "Eros," it is the apparent lack of drama, and the focus on the cognitive process, that facilitates emotional immediacy.

In twentieth-century poets such as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg, the literary apocalyptic--identifiable by its homology with the major elements of the biblical Apocalypse--undergoes progressively complex transmutations. While in the early Yeats the apocalyptic is evocative of earnest Romantic moods, in his later work it is complicated by irony, yoked to the cycles of Yeatsean history, and counteracted by exaggerated postures of defiance. In Eliot, a reductive juxtaposition of the apocalyptic and the contemporary foreshortens the traditional paradigms to a diminutive modern-day scale. In Lowell, the apocalyptic is manifested variously as a bitter inversion of American Puritan eschatology, the telescoping of the personal and the cosmic, and a catastrophe in slow-motion. The climactic point of distortion, however, is reached in Ginsberg's poetry in which apocalyptic horrors form a bizarre combination with humour and bathos. While their treatment of the eschatological is widely divergent, an element common to all four poets is their ambivalence towards the paradigms of an apocalyptic new world.

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