Explain Sylvia Plath as a confessional poet.

The "confessional" poets were a school including Ann
Sexton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath who were mid-twentieth century
American poets who composed poems in free verse with intensely volent imagery on
subjects taken from their inner emotional lives. They shared interest in, and personal
encounters with, psychotherapy, and much of the hallucinatory imagery of their work is a
type of dream imagery.

Plath in particular is obsessed with
suicide, Judaism, and Nazism, with these images often permeating poems on a variety of
unrelated topics. At her best, her poetry has a visceral intensity, creating its effects
through strikingly concise, vivid sensual imagery which moves seamlessly between the
actual and the surreal. At her worst, her poetry can be overwrought and
self-dramatizing.