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Journal articles on the topic "Confessional poetry"

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Sharma, Pradip. "Poetic Politics in the Confessional Poetry of Lowell and Plath." Literary Studies 35, no. 01 (2022): 89–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43683.

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This paper critically examines the cultural shifts the confessional poets mainly Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath brought in post war American poetry. Under the rubric of postwar isolation ongoing developmental practices induced by Fordist culture whatever psychic disturbances the contemporary generations encountered, are reflected in Lowell and Plath’s poetry. Unlike St. Augustine’s sacramental confession, confessional poetry primarily aims at autobiographical self-exploration in essence. Yet, the confessional poetry departs from the life writing with its sharp delving into the poet’s life. The

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Intekhab, Sadia. "Exploring the Intersection of Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory in the Confessional Poetry of Anita Nair and Kamala Das." East Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 2, no. 10 (2023): 4321–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/eajmr.v2i10.5552.

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The genre of confessional poetry is defined by the poet's personal and frequently extremely emotional experiences. It first appeared in the middle of the 20th century and is characterised by a personal tone and the first-person point of view. This paper shall examine the confessional elements in the poetry of two prominent Indian poets, Anita Nair and Kamala Das, through a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. In order to examine themes of love, relationships, and identity in their poetry, Nair and Das use personal experiences, emotions, and thoughts in their poems. The paper will examine t

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Gad, Barsoom Fikry Barsoom. "Anne Sexton’s Confessional Tradition and Individual Talent." CLEaR 3, no. 1 (2016): 10–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/clear-2016-0002.

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Abstract In his influential essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot emphasizes the significance of tradition as well as the inevitability of the present talent of the artist. He argues that every artist has his own original and individual themes and techniques that separate him from and link him with his predecessors at the same time. Anne Sexton, the Confessional American woman poet, is a good example that proves this everlasting notion of the allusion to “the dead poets” of the past together with the inevitable existence of the innovative original talent of the poet. Chiefly

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Pandey, Emily. "Understanding Confessionalism: Psychological Insights in the Poetry of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath." Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC) 9, no. 2 (2022): 15–25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12803422.

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<em>Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath are distinguished poets of confessional poetry. Confessional poetry is a branch of post-modern poetry. It has heralded a new era of English poetry. In confessional poetry poets bare their hearts to have psychic reliefs. Plath is an American confessional poet and Kamala Das is a traditional Indian woman writing poetry to exude her intense repressive feeling of sexual exploitation and humiliation in her conjugal life as well as in her society. Both poets have written poems to articulate their strong mortified emotions. They have defied taboos and showed their cour

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Smriti, Dr Richa. "Confessional Poetry Revealing Contemporary Realities Through Self Agonies." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 5 (2024): 073–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.95.10.

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Poetry is the communication of experiences in the form of art. The experiences which defined as poetry of the personal is called confessional poetry. Confessional poetry is the frank expression of personality. This poetry is of self-revealing in nature as it seeks to reveal the poets' state of mind and their feelings. Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das, Anne Sexton and Andrienne Rich are best examples of confessional poets. They universalized the sufferings and surmounting pain of womanhood through the lens of their own experiences in their lives. Their works demonstrate the tragedy of life of being a w

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Abdel Rahim, Rania Saber Ahmed. "A STUDY OF HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE CONFESSIONAL POETRY IN ROBERT LOWELL’S LIFE STUDIES." ENGLISH JOURNAL OF INDRAGIRI 5, no. 1 (2021): 81–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.32520/eji.v5i1.1284.

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Robert Lowell, the iconic American Poet, moves with his Confessional poetry, notably the poetic volume Life Studies (1959) from the “raw” to the “cooked”. Confessional poetry is similar to the art of confession. Moreover, the historical poetic pieces implied more than the mere gathering of fact and figures. For Lowell history manifested itself in the affairs of men and it is a persistent and violent force. Such a view is not entirely optimistic, springing directly from this view is Lowell's deep sense of loss, failure, alienation, helplessness and a feeling of entrapment in a world not of his

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LERNER, LAURENCE. "What is confessional poetry?" Critical Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1987): 46–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1987.tb00077.x.

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Быстров, Никита. "ИСПОВЕДАЛЬНОСТЬ В ПОЭЗИИ ВЯЧЕСЛАВА ИВАНОВА: ПРЕДВАРИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ЗАМЕЧАНИЯ". Conversatoria Litteraria, № 14 (10 липня 2020): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.34739/clit.2020.14.12.

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The article traces parallels between some confessional situations in the poetry of Vyacheslav Ivanov and the Confessions of St. Augustine. The question is raised about the ability of Ivanov`s symbolism to reproduce the existential uncertainty (ignorance of the further path, the actual rejection of its foreshadowing by culture and intellectual experience), to which the confession should lead the subject, if s/he follows the principle of Augustine`s „transcende te ipsum”. When the state of confession is pre-established by a system of symbols with a „ready” meaning, it risks losing its uniqueness

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Beamish, Shelly. "Confessional Poetry Is Trauma Speaking." International Journal of Literary Humanities 22, no. 3 (2024): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/cgp/v22i03/79-94.

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Boksh, Shanjida Khatun. "The Confessional Poetry of Robert Lowell:." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 4 (August 1, 2014): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v4i.242.

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The “grace of accuracy” (“Epilogue” Day by Day 127) serves as a credo for Robert Lowell’s art and for confessional poetry in general; it is the art of describing experiences in words, it is the artist’s reward of love, both to the art and to the fact. The cardinal force behind this artistic intention in writing even the most confessional of poems of Life Studies is Lowell’s formal mastery of New criticism stimulated by T.S. Eliot. Tellingly, Lowell broke away from the culpability of making confessional poetry a by-word for limp infatuation, and hence restored his position as an avant-garde poe

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Confessional poetry"

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Rossiter, Rebecca J. "The Apple Speaks: Reclaiming “Self” While Bridging Worlds in Confessional Mennonite Poetry." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180379152.

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Price, Deidre Dowling. "Confessional poetry and blog culture in the age of autobiography." Tallahassee, Florida : Florida State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03242010-001512/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2010.<br>Advisor: Andrew Epstein, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed on July 16, 2010). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 130 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

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Miller, Kelley Reno. "Vulgar Moon." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5142/.

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The preface to this collection, "Speculation and Silence," argues that confessional poetry remains integral to contemporary poetics, though the implications of the term have changed since its "first-generation." Confessional poetry must not be dependent on simply the transmission of sensational details and the emotional consequences, but on poets' implementation of silence and restraint in both the diffusion of ideas and in the crafting of the piece. Vulgar Moon is a collection of poems in which I explore the implications of events ranging from erotic love and motherhood, to the devastation of

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Breen, India R. "Miniature thunder: Inscribing the self in ekphrastic poetry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/106744/1/India_Breen_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led research project considers how the figure of poetic self is inscribed in the ekphrastic poem and looks at how ekphrasis can intersect with confessional poetics to form a hybrid mode. This mode of hybridity guides my own creative practice and creates an expansion of the term ekphrasis, as ekphrasis illuminates that it is never a static interaction, but a mode that entails a verbal representation of the artwork as well as aspects of the confessional self.

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Hurter, Jade. "Python Crown Girl." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2156.

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Walter, Lauren. "New Rust." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2205.

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A poetry thesis exploring issues of loss, death, creation, imagination, family, interpersonal relationships, nature, sexuality, and writing. The manuscript includes a preface that discusses literary influences such as Ai, H.D., and Sharon Olds, as well as writing in forms such as the dramatic monologue, imagistic poem, and confessional poem. Three main sections organize the manuscript's poems.

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Kilpatrick, Steven. "Laws of Inheritance." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804967/.

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Kelsall, Cameron P. "Major Kiss." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1337635108.

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Montjoy, Ashley Nicole. "Lost in Perception." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42648.

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Lost in Perception is a manuscript of narrative poems that are unflinching honest explorations of the selfâ emotional states-of-mind such as anxiety and anger, and states-of-being such as feelings of self-worthlessness. Confessional in nature these poems derive from familial relationships, domestic abuse, desire, sex and/or a combination of the aforementioned. To an extent, Lost in Perception is a manuscript of a diarist. It features a number of poems concerning a romantic relationship with an alcoholic that present a cohesive narrative within the collection. The narrator in Lost in Perc

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Flick, Jeremy Alan. "BLOOD ORE." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/89.

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While the great poet, James Whitcomb Riley, a native poet from my hometown of Greenfield, has a strong sense of Indiana and his Hoosier-ness. I compare myself to Whitcomb Riley, only in the sense of place, because my understanding of poetry was shaped around his work growing up in Hancock County. I am personally influenced by other poets such as Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, and James Wright in style and in content. My poetry contains a mixture of confessionalism and pastoral poems and doesn’t shy away from critiquing every aspect of place, family, and mental illness. These intersecting ideals a

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Books on the topic "Confessional poetry"

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Beardsworth, Adam. Confessional Poetry in the Cold War. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93115-5.

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Hine, Daryl. In and out: A confessional poem. Knopf, 1989.

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Huisken, Jesse. The first confessional poems of the Toronto poetry and painters guild. BookThug, 2004.

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Huisken, Jesse. The first confessional poems of the Toronto Poetry and Painters Guild. BookThug, 2003.

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Dissanayake, Wimal. Buddhist confessional poetry: Narratives of self-conversion : a reading of the Therigatha. Sarasavi Publishers, 2013.

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Holstad, Scott C. Never-Ending Cigarettes. Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 1999.

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Holstad, Scott C. Cells. PublishAmerica, 2004.

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Hahn, Susan. Confession. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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Rome, Marcus. Confessions of a rational lunatic. Birch Brook Press, 2006.

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Rome, Marcus. Confessions of a rational lunatic. Birch Brook Press, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Confessional poetry"

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Sykes, Rachel. "Confessional Poetry, Confessional Pop." In The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367237288-37.

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Brunner, Eva. "Chapter 10. Confessional poetry." In Rethinking Narrative Identity. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sin.17.11bru.

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Spencer, Eleanor. "The Great Divide? Post-confessional and Language Poetry." In American Poetry since 1945. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-32447-4_9.

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Nelson, Deborah. "Penetrating Privacy: Confessional Poetry and the Surveillance Society." In Homemaking. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003249481-9.

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Faulkner, Sandra L. "Mother-Poems: Using the Confessional as Critique in Autoethnographic Poetry." In Creative Selves / Creative Cultures. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47527-1_7.

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Haines, Simon. "The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions." In Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230502772_4.

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Engels, John. "Confessions of a Peeping Tom." In Contemporary Poetry: A Retrospective from the "Quarterly Review of Literature", edited by Theodore Russell Weiss. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400871728-087.

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Miller, Paul Allen. "Going Soft on Canidia." In 'Pataphilology. punctum books, 2018. https://doi.org/10.21983/p3.0232.1.07.

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Written during the early years of Augustus’s consoli-dation of power at Rome (the period sometimes, though misleadingly, called the beginning of the empire), many of Horace’s Epodes display an aggressive combi-nation of sexual, political, and social humor with connections reaching back to the archaic period of Greek poetry. Among the objects of invective in the collection is a certain Canidia, who is attacked in Epodes 3, 5, and 17 (she is attacked, also, in Satires 1.8, 2.1, and 2.8).1 In two other Epodes, 8 and 12, Horace writes about his own impotence, caused, he says, by the agency of an u

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Nelson, Deborah. "Confessional Poetry." In The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945. Cambridge University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139032674.004.

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Grobe, Christopher. "The Breath of a Poem." In Art of Confession. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479829170.003.0003.

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Today, we may know confessional poetry as a set of texts that are printed in books, but in its time it was also a performance genre. This chapter demonstrates how the performance of poems—in the privacy of the poet’s study, at public poetry readings, and in the studios of recorded literature companies—shaped this genre, determined its tactics, and influenced its style. An extended comparison of Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg shows that breath was a key medium for confessional poets, and a study of Anne Sexton’s career—both on the page and at the podium—shows how she “breathed back” dead poem

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Conference papers on the topic "Confessional poetry"

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Dicusar, Cristina. "The promise of pure poetry. A rereading of Bessarabian poetry of the 70s." In Conferință științifică internațională "FILOLOGIA MODERNĂ: REALIZĂRI ŞI PERSPECTIVE ÎN CONTEXT EUROPEAN". “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/filomod.2023.17.08.

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This article discusses expressions of authenticity in the Bessarabian poetry of the 70s. On the one hand, some Bessarabian 70s poets discovered a new poetic style by reviving the "romantic cult of the soul". The poet, lacking the power of directness, but also of allusion or irony, decides to expel the real and retire, as a sign of peaceful "protest", in an ivory tower. There, he becomes the prophet of an imaginary, dreamlike, ever-revealing (uni)verse. On the other hand, another type of discourse is discreetly established, intimate, confessional, concerned with rehabilitating and cleaning the

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Popova, T. A. "AMERICAN CONFESSIONAL POETRY IN RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS (THE CASE OF S. PLATH’S «DADDY»)." In ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES. Publishing House of Tomsk State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/978-5-94621-901-3-2020-102.

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Elbakidze, Maka, and Irine Modebadze. "The Concepts and Realities of the Eastern Culture in “The Knight in the Panther's Skin”." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2024. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.2.8415.

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To the present day the research on The Knight in the Panther’s Skin (“Vepkhistqaosani”) in connection with the Eastern Muslim world has been conducted in two main directions: 1. “Vepkhistqaosani” and literature composed in the Muslim world (for example, parallels with Nizami, Ferdowsi, Fakhraddin Gorgani etc.); 2. “Vepkhistqaosani” and the confession of the Muslim faith: this includes the works, which agree or deny the presence of the Muslim understanding of God, world, romantic love and the relationship between men and women in Rustaveli’s Romance. When analyzing the concepts and realities of

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Serdesniuc, Cristian. "Symbols and Artistic Ways of Coming Back into Childhood to Grigore Vieru." In Conferinta stiintifica nationala "Lecturi în memoriam acad. Silviu Berejan", Ediția 6. “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Republic of Moldova, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52505/lecturi.2023.06.24.

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First of all, Grigore Vieru is a children`s poet because, under the sign of imagination, he returns through intermedia of them to the lost universe of childhood. The metaphysic return to the distant past means the revenue to the traditions and inland isolation. Being reached to the innocent universe, the poet is totally moved to primordial places by the contact with the mother`s image and the returning to the frame of the native borders. The insistent looking for childhood, by Vieru means nothing but ``looking for himself``. Through the sing of reflection and reminding, the poet redesigned in

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Андреев, Дмитрий Андреевич, and Андрей Евгеньевич Крашенинников. "THE CREATIVE PATH OF TILL LINDEMANN." In Сборник избранных статей по материалам научных конференций ГНИИ «Нацразвитие» (Санкт-Петербург, Май 2021). Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/may316.2021.87.93.005.

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В статье рассматривается становление немецкого рокмена Тилля Линдеманна как творческой личности. Он входит в число известных немецких музыкантов, но не всем известно, что Т. Линдеманн еще и поэт. Его произведения написаны в традиционном для Германии стиле экспрессионизма. В своих стихотворениях Т. Линдеманн поднимает темы любви, творчества, жизни и смерти. Чувства у Т. Линдманна обычно преподносятся от лица лирического героя, носят характер исповеди и наполнены трагизмом. The article examines the formation of the German rockman Till Lindemann as a creative person. He is one of the famous Germa

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