John+Berryman's+Dream+Songs

There is so much going on in these poems. A so-called "confessional" poet, Berryman's //Dream Songs// are full of images of sex and sexuality, dreamscapes, and Henry - possibly his other self, his shadow, or as one student suggested, his penis.

Yes, these are poems that could use some psychoanalytic understanding. There are so many of them. Maybe read the first 20? Here is a [|link]. They are sorted by number, so you have to look for 2. There is also a pdf file.[|john_berryman_2004_9.pdf]