Analysis Of Anne Sexton's Poem Ringing The Bell
No Sense of Belonging
The speaker in Anne Sexton’s poem, Ringing The Bells, is a mentally stable woman in a mental hospital called Bedlam whose weekly routine of music lessons is boring to her. The tone is lackluster and the imagery suggested in the poem makes the speaker seem like she has no sense of belonging. Given the imagery and tone in the poem, the speaker is mentally stable in an unstable environment.
From reading the whole poem, the reader can establish the speaker in the poem has a mental awareness of the unstable things going on. She has the ability to remember her music instructor “comes each Tuesday morning” (4). She doesn’t feel she needs to go, but she goes because she fits in with the unstable people around her saying, “because
The speaker in Anne Sexton’s poem, Ringing The Bells, is a mentally stable woman in a mental hospital called Bedlam whose weekly routine of music lessons is boring to her. The tone is lackluster and the imagery suggested in the poem makes the speaker seem like she has no sense of belonging. Given the imagery and tone in the poem, the speaker is mentally stable in an unstable environment.
From reading the whole poem, the reader can establish the speaker in the poem has a mental awareness of the unstable things going on. She has the ability to remember her music instructor “comes each Tuesday morning” (4). She doesn’t feel she needs to go, but she goes because she fits in with the unstable people around her saying, “because