Poetry in Exile Analytical Essay by academic

This paper discusses how, in poetry, there are poets who reflect on their own exile, either introspectively from the world or physically from their home country, and poets who reflect on the state of exile in all the facets that it encompasses. It shows how poets like Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas wrote more and more about elements of exile, or analogies of exile, significantly, through their own turmoil or their own social position. It also examines how other poets, like Michael Palmer, reflect on exile through poetry that challenges political and social contexts and forces us to think about, perhaps even remove ourselves from, our own comfort and surroundings, therefore, committing an act of exile on behalf of the poet.