Cyril Wong’s poetry: examining the confessional.

• Main Author: Goh, Jiamin.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45876
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Confessional poetry is often understood as being solipsistic insofar as it turns inward in its examination of the individual, oftentimes resulting in self-absorption. With regard to Cyril Wong’s poetry, Leonard Jeyam has stated that “his is an art that works simply from a personal plane, and from wi...