most identifiable examples are Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Both Plath and Sexton were troubled individuals who suffered from manic depression and bipolar disorder‚ and both ultimately gave in to their suicidal tendencies and took their own lives. The eerie similarities between the lives of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath continued into their written works‚ producing two sets of confessional literature with common themes. Both Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton shared the common themes of death‚ mental illness
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Anne Sexton‚ who is considered one of the Great American Author‚ wrote during the Contemporary period. Anne’s most particular poem collection is titled “All My Pretty Ones(1962) and Live Or Die(1966)”. In each of these poem collections they show us evidence of Characteristics‚ themes‚ and style identified with the Contemporary movement which was extant in American letters between 1945 and 1974. Anne Sexton was one of the best well known Poets in the Contemporary Movement thus‚ still remains one of
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1) The speaker is Anne Sexton‚ IMO. This poem is one of Anne Sexton’s strophic poems‚ with a clear rhyme scheme and stanza order. The speaker is insane‚ yet she is able to maintain a sense of reality. She identifies with female oppression. "Her Kind" was written to lay out Sexton’s despair towards the world‚ while coping with mental illness. 2) "I have been her kind" means that she closely identifies with each type. This‚ I believe‚ is Sexton’s transference of her many selves into the poem. She
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Correchet‚ Camille Prof. Fonts ENC 1102-3 15 February 2012 Conventional In the real world‚ problems and complications come up and happily ever after’s don’t exist. Sexton takes the classic story of “Cinderella”‚ reworks it‚ and makes it into her own twisted version of a fairytale. She starts the audience off with a few little “rags-to-riches” accounts comparing modern culture’s unrealistic dreams to what life really is like. Then she goes into telling the readers the famously known fairytale
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The poem‚ ¨Courage¨ by Anne Sexton‚ is telling about a person´s journey in life and their perseverance of courage. The poem leads the reader through a child’s first few steps‚ riding a bike for the first time‚ his first spanking‚ being bullied by other kids‚ adulthood‚ fighting in a war‚ witnessing a close friend’s death‚ and facing his own death. Each stanza serves as a major stage in a person’s life journey and how courage is constantly being shown through different actions and ways; even during
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Oysters: Anne Sexton: An appreciation (commentary) The poem “Oysters” came into view in Anne Sexton’s sixth published book of poetry called “The Book of Folly”. Anne Sexton was married at the age of nineteen‚ and so this poem could revolve around how she misses her dad and how she grew older and more mature to what she is now. Sexton‚ provokes the idea of getting older and mature throughout the entire poem‚ by using the idea of symbolism. This poem also has a sexual aspect to it‚ which adds
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elaborate fur coat. Anne Sexton an American writer‚ born in 1928‚ battled depression‚ mania and suicidal tendencies her whole adult life as well as being diagnosed with what is now called bipolar disorder. Sexton had a family but suffered severely from post-natal depression after the birth of her first born therefore shortly after she was admitted into a neuropsychiatric ward and was continually transported in and out of institutions for the rest of her short-lived life. Sexton found an escape from
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We’ve always read or been read fairy tales once in our lives‚ and how do they always end? Yes‚ happily ever after. In Anne Sexton’s "Cinderella"‚ she shakes up the traditional fairy tale‚ by adding her own tale. She uses sarcasm to finish the tale‚ causing the reader’s expectation of a happy ending and a traditional fairy tale to disappear. In doing so‚ she depicts the difference between the fairy tale and reality world. With Sexton’s harsh words of reality‚ she breaks the dreams of the readers
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’The Abortion’ by Anne Sexton is a first person narrative poem in the style of a stream of consciousness and conveys a woman’s emotional and physical journey whilst undergoing an abortion. I intend to discuss how through the effective use of imagery‚ tone‚ symbolism and word choice the poet successfully builds up an atmosphere which adds to your appreciation of the poem. Within stanzas one and two the poet uses imagery and word choice to convey that the narrator is thinking about
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different types: physical‚ mental‚ spiritual. These journeys demonstrate the way that the person is or acts during the journey. A destination needs the journey‚ because without the journey there is no destination. In the poem “Courage” by Anne Sexton it demonstrates the way that the young person had gone throughout difficult time in his or her life growing up. An example from the text is “and made you into an alien‚ you drank their acid and concealed it.” (Lines 10-12). The evidence from the
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