no longer on this planet. Her memory lives in her artwork and poems and will always be remembered. In her life‚ Anne Sexton endured many pains throughout her life. As a child she grew up in an abusive unstable home. She then became a model‚ but dropped out of school and slowly sank into alcoholism and depression. Then‚ in her mid forties she committed suicide. The struggles Sexton went through influenced her confessional writing style. Her poems represent a seemingly ongoing diary about pain
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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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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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The one poem I found interesting was "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton. I expected the poem to just be a fancy version of the princess tale Cinderella which everyone knows that story. I expected it to be boring and everything I already knew about the fairytale. But this version was a more grim tale of the orginal. The beginning really hooks you with all the little stories about the plumber winning the sweekskates‚ the nursemaid marring the prince‚ and the milkman buying into real estate. All these people
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Reality: Anne Sexton’s retelling of Cinderella Michelangelo‚ perhaps the most gifted sculptor and painter of all times‚ once said that "geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses." As Michelangelo built upon the brilliance of his predecessors‚ Anne Sexton does the same with her poem "Cinderella". Fairy tales originated as oral traditions and were passed along and sculpted by thousands of story tellers. Each raconteur changes elements in the story to fit their individual needs. Sexton reinvents
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In Anne Sexton’s "Cinderella" one may ponder what the purpose and tone is. Anne Sexton uses a strong satiric and humorous undertone when poking fun at marriage. The use of dark humor adds life and body to the poem. Anne Sexton’s placement of witty understatements is impeccable and allows the reader to imagine Anne Sexton’s dark humorous laugh as they read the poem. "You always read about.../...the nursemaid some luscious sweet from Denmark / who captures the oldest son’s heart. / from Diapers to
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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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Anne Sexton’s poem Cinderella is an analysis of the falsehood of fairytales and their inapplicable meanings to real‚ everyday life. Sexton’s poem‚ as a whole‚ mocks the classic tale of Cinderella by retelling the story with an analysis intertwined. This big message of fairytales being fake is reiterated throughout the poem through repetition‚ similes through imagery‚ and diction. Sexton’s use of repetition is easily spotted in the last stanza of the poem. Sexton’s negative view is shown through
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